Xinjiang,中国的最向西北省的行政区域,是东方人遇见了西方人的区域。在 Xinjiang 的人口展出很高基因的差异。以前的学习表明青铜时代的东方 Xinjiang 人口被混合由东方并且西方的 Eurasians。然而,当人口混合开始了时,很少研究被执行了揭示并且到西方,它多远到达了。在这份报纸,我们在 Xinjiang 的西南在和阗河(Keriya 县) 从青铜时代 Liushui 墓地学习了 18 个颅骨的 148 个 craniofacial 特点。和阗河样品的十七个头盖测量的参数当时与来自整个用 dendrogram 簇分析,主要部件分析,并且多维的可伸缩的 Xinjiang 的另外的古老的样品的那些相比。结果显示 Liushui 墓地的那件人口样品被西方、东方的 Eurasians 从东方与大约 79% 贡献混合。因此,我们证明在东方和西方欧亚大陆之间的那人口混合能被跟踪回到象在西南 Xinjiang 的 1000 BC 一样早。
Xinjiang, the most northwest provincial administrative area of China, was the area where the oriental people met the occidental. The populations in Xinjiang exhibit very high genetic diversity. Previous study revealed that the eastern Xinjiang populations of the Bronze Age were mixed by the Eastern and the Western Eurasians. However, few studies have been performed to reveal when the population admixture started and how far to the west it reached. In this paper, we studied 148 craniofacial traits of 18 skulls from the Bronze Age Liushui graveyard in Khotan (Keriya County) in the southwest of Xinjiang. Seventeen craniometrical pa- rameters of the Khotan samples were then compared with those of other ancient samples from around Xinjiang using dendrogram cluster analysis, principal components analysis, and multidimensional scaling. The results indicated that population sample of Liushui graveyard was mixed by the Western and Eastern Eurasians with about 79% contribution from the east. Therefore, we demonstrated that population admixture between east and west Eurasia can be traced back to as early as 1000 BC in southwest Xinjiang.