“…To comprehensively dissect the genetic background of Shanxi northern-Han Chinese, we first integrated our raw genotyping data (23 STRs) with previously published genotype data from 11 Chinese populations from five Chinese ethnic groups (Han, Hui, Tibetan, Yi, and Uyghur) (He et al, 2018b; Wang et al, 2018a; Chen et al, 2019; Liu et al, 2019). To further explore the genetic relationship of Shanxi Han in the context of the genetic variations from the worldwide or nationwide populations, we subsequently combined our allele frequency of 20 STRs with publicly obtained data from 52 worldwide populations (Westen et al, 2012; Gaviria et al, 2013; Park et al, 2013; Fujii et al, 2014; Almeida et al, 2015; Parolin et al, 2015; Aguilar-Velazquez et al, 2016; Hossain et al, 2016; Ng et al, 2016; Park et al, 2016; Ramos-Gonzalez et al, 2016; Ristow et al, 2016; Vullo et al, 2016; Wang, 2016; Zhang et al, 2016a; Zhang et al, 2016b; Choi et al, 2017; Guerreiro et al, 2017; Jin et al, 2017; Liu et al, 2017; Moyses et al, 2017; Ossowski et al, 2017; Singh and Nandineni, 2017; Taylor et al, 2017; Wu et al, 2017; Yang et al, 2017a; He et al, 2018b; He et al, 2018e; Wang et al, 2018a; Liu et al, 2019) and allele frequency of 19 STRs with previously investigated the allele frequency distribution from 60 Chinese populations (Zhang et al, 2011; Zhang, 2012; Liu et al, 2013; Shen, 2013; Zhang, 2013; Wang, 2014; Wang et al, 2014; Xie, 2014; Hu et al, 2015; Li, 2015; Ruan, 2015; Shen et al, 2015; Wang, 2015; Yin, 2015; Zhang and Chen, 2015; Zhao et al, 2015a; Huang, 2016; Meng, 2016; Wang, 2016; Xiang, 2016; Xiao et al, 2016; Zhao, 2016; Chen et al, 2017; Fu et al, 2017; He et al, 2017a; He et al, 2017c; Jin et al, 2017; Liu, 2017; Lu et al, 2017;…”