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

BMC Biology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Li, Chunxiang ^a   Li, Hongjie ^a   Cui, Yinqiu ^a   Xie, Chengzhi ^a   Cai, Dawei ^a   Li, Wenying ^b   Mair, Victor H ^c   Xu, Zhi ^d   Zhang, Quanchao ^a   Abuduresule, Idelisi ^b   Jin, Li ^c   Zhu, Hong ^a   Zhou, Hui ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Xinjiang Cultural Relics and Archaeology Institute   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CHINA; FEMALE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; HISTORY; HUMAN; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; Y CHROMOSOME;

ARCHAEOLOGY; CHINA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 77949428894     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-15     Document Type: Article

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