Editing Han Chinese (section)

=== Closely related East Asian groups ===
The Han Chinese show a close yet distinguishable genetic relationship with other East Asian populations such as the [[Koreans]] and [[Yamato people|Yamato]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Horai |first1=Satoshi |last2=Murayama |first2=Kumiko |date=1996 |title=mtDNA Polymorphism in East Asian Populations, with Special Reference to the Peopling of Japan |journal=[[American Journal of Human Genetics]] |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |publisher=[[Cell Press]] |publication-date=1996 |volume=59 |issue=3 |pages=579–590 |pmc=1914908 |pmid=8751859}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Shi |first1=Cheng-Min |last2=Liu |first2=Qi |last3=Zhao |first3=Shilei |last4=Chen |first4=Hua |title=Ancestry informative SNP panels for discriminating the major East Asian populations: Han Chinese, Japanese and Korean |journal=Annals of Human Genetics |date=September 2019 |volume=83 |issue=5 |pages=348–354 |doi=10.1111/ahg.12320 |pmid=31025319 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Pan |first1=Ziqing |last2=Xu |first2=Shuhua |date=2019 |title=Population genomics of East Asian ethnic groups |journal=[[Hereditas]] |location=Berlin |publisher=[[BioMed Central]] |publication-date=2020 |volume=157 |issue=49 |page=49 |doi=10.1186/s41065-020-00162-w |pmc=7724877 |pmid=33292737 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Shi |first1=Cheng-Min |last2=Liu |first2=Qi |last3=Zhao |first3=Shilei |last4=Chen |first4=Hua |title=Ancestry informative SNP panels for discriminating the major East Asian populations: Han Chinese, Japanese and Korean |journal=Annals of Human Genetics |date=September 2019 |volume=83 |issue=5 |pages=348–354 |doi=10.1111/ahg.12320 |pmid=31025319 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="sciencemag2017">{{cite journal |last1=Siska |first1=Veronika |last2=Jones |first2=Eppie Ruth |last3=Jeon |first3=Sungwon |last4=Bhak |first4=Youngjune |last5=Kim |first5=Hak-Min |last6=Cho |first6=Yun Sung |last7=Kim |first7=Hyunho |last8=Lee |first8=Kyusang |last9=Veselovskaya |first9=Elizaveta |last10=Balueva |first10=Tatiana |last11=Gallego-Llorente |first11=Marcos |last12=Hofreiter |first12=Michael |last13=Bradley |first13=Daniel G. |last14=Eriksson |first14=Anders |last15=Pinhasi |first15=Ron |date=1 February 2017 |title=Genome-wide data from two early Neolithic East Asian individuals dating to 7700 years ago |journal=Science Advances |volume=3 |issue=2 |page=e1601877 |bibcode=2017SciA....3E1877S |doi=10.1126/sciadv.1601877 |pmc=5287702 |pmid=28164156 |last16=Bhak |first16=Jong |last17=Manica |first17=Andrea}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Wang, Yuchen |author2=Lu Dongsheng |author3=Chung Yeun-Jun |author4=Xu Shuhua |year=2018 |title=Genetic structure, divergence and admixture of Han Chinese, Japanese and Korean populations |journal=Hereditas |volume=155 |page=19 |doi=10.1186/s41065-018-0057-5 |pmc=5889524 |pmid=29636655 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name="pmid 29636655" />{{Excessive citations inline|date=September 2024}} Although the genetic relationship is close, the various Han Chinese subgroups are genetically closer to each other than to their Korean and Yamato counterparts.<ref name="pmid 29636655" />

Other research suggests a significant overlap between Yamato Japanese and the Northern Han Chinese in particular.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cao |first1=Yanan |last2=Li |first2=Lin |last3=Xu |first3=Min |display-authors=etal |date=2020 |title=The ChinaMAP analytics of deep whole genome sequences in 10,588 individuals |journal=Cell Research |volume=30 |issue=9 |pages=717–731 |doi=10.1038/s41422-020-0322-9 |pmc=7609296 |pmid=32355288 |doi-access=free}}</ref>