Population data of 17 Y-STR loci in Nanyang Han population from Henan Province, Central China

摘要

Nanyang is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Henan province, bordering the province of Shaanxi to the west, and the province of Hubei to the south (Fig. SI). It is the largest administrative area in Henan and spans over 26,591 km2. The city has 10,263,006 inhabitants at the 2010 census, with a majority of the Han population (97.6%) and a total of 43 ethnic compositions (2.4%), such as Hui, Mongolian, Manchu and so forth. Its local dialect is known as Nanyang Hua, which is a branch of Henan dialect, spoken by about 15 million people around the area.Supplementary Fig. SI related to this article can be found, in the online version, at doi:10.1016/j.fsigen.2014.07.013.