The evaluation of forensic characteristics and the phylogenetic analysis of the Ong Be language-speaking population based on Y-STR

Population comparisons demonstrated that the Lingao people had distant relationships with Asian nations at the national level and had relatively close genetic and linguistic relationships with Hainan Li and Guizhou Gelao, both of whom belong to the Tai-Kadai language family. The present results increase our understanding of the genetic relationships between the Lingao people and other groups, and further research in genetics and other areas is still needed to trace the origin of the Lingao people.