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Genetic evidence for two founding populations of the Americas
- amerine 11y agoIs there a copy of the paper not locked behind a paywall?
- jofer 11y agoTry: http://genetics.med.harvard.edu/reich/Reich_Lab/Publications_files/2015_Nature_Skoglund_PopulationY_concatenated.pdf http://genetics.med.harvard.edu/reich/Reich_Lab/Publications...
- irickt 11y agoAbstract: Genetic studies have consistently indicated a single common origin of Native American groups from Central and South America. However, some morphological studies have suggested a more complex picture, whereby the northeast Asian affinities of present-day Native Americans contrast with a distinctive morphology seen in some of the earliest American skeletons, which share traits with present-day Australasians (indigenous groups in Australia, Melanesia, and island Southeast Asia). Here we analyse genome-wide data to show that some Amazonian Native Americans descend partly from a Native American founding population that carried ancestry more closely related to indigenous Australians, New Guineans and Andaman Islanders than to any present-day Eurasians or Native Americans. This signature is not present to the same extent, or at all, in present-day Northern and Central Americans or in a 12,600-year-old Clovis-associated genome, suggesting a more diverse set of founding populations of the Americas than previously accepted.
- mturmon 11y agoThere is only partial agreement on these results. For a bit more, see: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6246/354.summary?sid=c8a040a2-e527-4b4e-bfcb-9e486acf6338 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6246/354.summary?sid=c...