Central Asia / Global13th century CE – present
Genghis Khan's Genetic Shadow: One in 200 Men Carry His Y Chromosome
Most ancestors vanish from the historical record within a few generations. Genghis Khan did the opposite — science suggests he left a biological mark on roughly 16 million men alive today. A landmark genetics study found that an unusually high proportion of men across Central Asia share a nearly identical Y chromosome, pointing back to a single common ancestor who lived around 1,000 years ago.
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