Genghis is father to 16m (and that's just the boys)

By JAYA NARAIN

Last updated at 01:05 21 May 2007

He created a 抱擁する and ruthless empire. But Genghis 旅宿泊所's conquests were not 制限するd to the 戦場.

The Mongolian 将軍 has 16million male 子孫s living today, によればデオキシリボ核酸研究 - meaning he must have fathered hundreds, or かもしれない thousands, of children.

Scientists have traced a cluster of 極端に類似の Y-染色体s 支援する to a 選び出す／独身 ancestor living in Mongolia around 800 years ago.

They believe the only man with the 適切な時期 to father enough children would have been 旅宿泊所. The 悪名高い支配者, who was born

in Russia around 1165, 征服する／打ち勝つd parts of modern- day 中国, Iran, Pakistan, Korea and south Russia.

An accountancy professor whose ancestors （機の）カム from the Lake 地区 is the first man outside Asia to be identified as carrying the '旅宿泊所染色体.

Although he 株 the 将軍's デオキシリボ核酸, 48-year-old Florida academic Tom Robinson is not a keen horseman and has built no empires.

His 広大な／多数の／重要な-広大な／多数の／重要な-grandfather emigrated to the U.S. from Windermere in Cumbria and scientists 見積（る） there could be up to 100 子孫s of 旅宿泊所 living in the Lake 地区.

It was 設立する that Professor Robinson's paternal forebears （機の）カム from the Caucasus 近づく the 黒人／ボイコット Sea.

Although he is proud of his much-maligned ancestor, he said: "I'm not sure we have too many similarities. I 明白に港／避難所't 征服する／打ち勝つd any countries, and though I've 長，率いるd up accounting groups, I've done nothing as big as Genghis 旅宿泊所."

The findings 確認する an earlier 熟考する／考慮する which 設立する that 旅宿泊所's デオキシリボ核酸 '指紋' was staggeringly 普及した all over the Asian subcontinent.

The 研究, led by Dr Miroslava Derenko from the ロシアの学院 of Science, 焦点（を合わせる）d on 1,437 men from across the Mongolian 領土s.

It looked at their Y-染色体s, which are passed 負かす／撃墜する from father to son.

The scientists discovered that the 染色体 cluster was 設立する only in 全住民s 株ing 境界s with Mongolia.

And although 旅宿泊所's army - the Golden Horde - controlled a 重要な part of Russia after his death in 1227, there was no 調印する of the 独特の genetic trace there apart from in 民族の少数，小数派全住民s.

The highest 集中 of '旅宿泊所染色体' 運送／保菌者s was in a group of 民族の Kazakhs.

Nearly one in 12 of them 株d a 選び出す／独身ありふれた ancestor.

Dr Derenko said: "We hope that その上の調査 of the Y-染色体 variability will 許す us to 意味ありげに延長する our knowledge about the 進化 and history of ロシアの民族の group 形式 and about the origin of individual 一族／派閥s."