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ArticlePloS one2008

Mitochondrial DNA evidence for a diversified origin of workers building First Emperor of China.

Zhi Xu, Fan Zhang, Bosong Xu, Jingze Tan, Shilin Li, Chunxiang Li, Hui Zhou, Hong Zhu, Jun Zhang, Qingbo Duan and 1 more

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Article in PloS one, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Zhi XuMinistry of Education (MOE) Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology and Center for Evolutionary Biology, School of Life Sciences and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Fan Zhang
Bosong Xu
Jingze Tan
Shilin Li
Chunxiang Li
Hui Zhou
Hong Zhu
Jun Zhang
Qingbo Duan
Li Jin
Fudan University · CNJilin University · CNChinese Academy of Social Sciences · CNHenan Provincial Institute of Cultural Heritage and Archaeology · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Variant studies on ancient DNA have attempted to reveal individual origin. Here, based on cloning sequencing and polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphisms, we analyzed polymorphisms in the first hypervariable region and coding regions of mitochondrial DNA of 19 human bone remains which were excavated from a tomb near the Terra Cotta Warriors and dated some 2,200 years before present. With the aim of shedding light on origins of these samples who were supposed to be workers building the mausoleum for the First Emperor of China, we compared them with 2,164 mtDNA profiles from 32 contemporary Chinese populations at both population and individual levels. Our results showed that mausoleum-building workers may be derived from very diverse sources of origin.

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OccupationsBase SequenceChinaCloning, MolecularDNA, MitochondrialDNA PrimersHistory, AncientHumansMolecular Sequence DataPolymorphism, Restriction Fragment LengthSequence Homology, Nucleic AcidDNA, MitochondrialDNA Primers

Identifiers

PMID18833341
PMCPMC2557057
OpenAlexW1998777381

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