genetic ancestry; genetic markers; asia; asian populations; genetic admixture

Asia is the world’s largest and most geographically and ethnolinguistically diverse continent. Those various ethnolinguistic groups inhabit different geography and climatic extremes. Such linguistic and geographic diversifications could be correlated with the genetic variation of human populations. So far, several previous studies have reported on the genetic variation of Asian populations. Since there is an enormous diversity of modern human populations in Asia, abundant present-day populations and numerous human remains have been left for investigation. Therefore, we established this Research Topic and we initially intended to call for research articles on populations from all regions across Asia. However, we were not able to recruit research papers on populations from some parts of the continent.