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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31822052), the National Thousand Youth Talents Plan, the Major Projects of the National Social Science Foundation of China (17ZDA221). We thank High-Performance Computing (HPC) of Northwest A&F University (NWAFU) for providing computing resources.
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Wen, J., Zheng, Z., Gong, M. et al. Ancient genomes reveal the genetic inheritance and recent introgression in Chinese indigenous pigs. Sci. China Life Sci. 65, 842–845 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-021-2066-y
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