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Evidence that a West-East admixed population lived in the Tarim Basin as early as the early Bronze Age

Chunxiang Li, Hongjie Li, Yinqiu Cui et al., 2010. BMC Biology 8: 15.

Mitochondrial and Y-chromosome markers from individuals in the lowest layer of the Xiaohe cemetery. Finds a mix of West and East Eurasian mtDNA lineages and Y haplogroup R1a1a in the males, read as an admixed founding population that came from both directions.

MYS0D90DXEP4QQE · mystery · click to copyMTarim Basin mummies (Xiaohe)Articledoi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-15Checked against the original0

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The uniparental evidence that supported a mixed-migration reading before genome-wide data.

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Li, C., Li, H., Cui, Y., Xie, C., Cai, D., Li, W., Mair, V. H., & Xu, Z. (2010). Evidence that a West-East admixed population lived in the Tarim Basin as early as the early Bronze Age. BMC Biology 8: 15. https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-8-15
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