Mengzi Ren

Mengzi Ren (MZR) is a fossil of a woman found in a Red Deer Cave in modern-day China. She lived around 14,000 years ago in the Late Pleistocene era. Her genome has similarities to both modern-day East Asian and indigenous American genomes and is believed to be closely related to the East Asian ancestors of indigenous Americans. Her mitochondrial DNA belongs to a lineage of the M9 haplogroup, which is now extinct.^[1]

References

^ Zhang, Xiaoming; Ji, Xueping; Li, Chunmei; Yang, Tingyu; Huang, Jiahui; Zhao, Yinhui; Wu, Yun; Ma, Shiwu; Pang, Yuhong; Huang, Yanyi; He, Yaoxi; Su, Bing (July 2022). "A Late Pleistocene human genome from Southwest China". Current Biology. 32 (14): 3095–3109.e5. Bibcode:2022CBio...32E3095Z. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.06.016. PMID 35839766.

[1] Zhang, Xiaoming; Ji, Xueping; Li, Chunmei; Yang, Tingyu; Huang, Jiahui; Zhao, Yinhui; Wu, Yun; Ma, Shiwu; Pang, Yuhong; Huang, Yanyi; He, Yaoxi; Su, Bing (July 2022). "A Late Pleistocene human genome from Southwest China". Current Biology. 32 (14): 3095–3109.e5. Bibcode:2022CBio...32E3095Z. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.06.016. PMID 35839766.

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