# Li 2010: 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. 4 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The uniparental evidence that supported a mixed-migration…

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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.

**Tarim Basin mummies (Xiaohe)** Articledoi: **[10.1186/1741-7007-8-15](https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-8-15)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

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

## Cited by on this site 4 records

[Males of the lowest Xiaohe layer carry Y haplogroup R1a1a, read in 2010 as a western link.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/tarim-mummies/evidence/EVD0D90E4S25A05/males-of-the-lowest-xiaohe-layer-carry-y-haplogroup-r1a1a)

Evidence

EVD

[Mitochondrial and Y-chromosome results from the lowest Xiaohe layer](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/tarim-mummies/events/EVT0D90E1VA2SPH/mitochondrial-and-y-chromosome-results-from-the-lowest)

EVT

[The Tarim Basin mummies (Xiaohe)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/tarim-mummies)

The mystery article

MYS

[Jilin University School of Life Sciences and Research Center for Chinese Frontier Archaeology](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/tarim-mummies/organisations/ORG0D90E0CE3H0Z/jilin-university-school-of-life-sciences-and-research-center)

ORG

## Cite it

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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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[Read it free at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-8-15)

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