A private allele ubiquitous in the Americas
The three-wave migration hypothesis of Greenberg et al . has permeated the genetic literature on the peopling of the Americas. Greenberg et al . proposed that Na-Dene, Aleut-Eskimo and Amerind are language phyla which represent separate migrations from Asia to the Americas. We show that a unique all...
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crroyalsociety:10.1098/rsbl.2006.0609 2024-06-02T07:54:42+00:00 A private allele ubiquitous in the Americas Schroeder, K.B Schurr, T.G Long, J.C Rosenberg, N.A Crawford, M.H Tarskaia, L.A Osipova, L.P Zhadanov, S.I Smith, D.G 2007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2006.0609 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsbl.2006.0609 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full-xml/10.1098/rsbl.2006.0609 en eng The Royal Society https://royalsociety.org/journals/ethics-policies/data-sharing-mining/ Biology Letters volume 3, issue 2, page 218-223 ISSN 1744-9561 1744-957X journal-article 2007 crroyalsociety https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2006.0609 2024-05-07T14:16:07Z The three-wave migration hypothesis of Greenberg et al . has permeated the genetic literature on the peopling of the Americas. Greenberg et al . proposed that Na-Dene, Aleut-Eskimo and Amerind are language phyla which represent separate migrations from Asia to the Americas. We show that a unique allele at autosomal microsatellite locus D9S1120 is present in all sampled North and South American populations, including the Na-Dene and Aleut-Eskimo, and in related Western Beringian groups, at an average frequency of 31.7%. This allele was not observed in any sampled putative Asian source populations or in other worldwide populations. Neither selection nor admixture explains the distribution of this regionally specific marker. The simplest explanation for the ubiquity of this allele across the Americas is that the same founding population contributed a large fraction of ancestry to all modern Native American populations. Article in Journal/Newspaper aleut eskimo* The Royal Society Biology Letters 3 2 218 223 |
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The three-wave migration hypothesis of Greenberg et al . has permeated the genetic literature on the peopling of the Americas. Greenberg et al . proposed that Na-Dene, Aleut-Eskimo and Amerind are language phyla which represent separate migrations from Asia to the Americas. We show that a unique allele at autosomal microsatellite locus D9S1120 is present in all sampled North and South American populations, including the Na-Dene and Aleut-Eskimo, and in related Western Beringian groups, at an average frequency of 31.7%. This allele was not observed in any sampled putative Asian source populations or in other worldwide populations. Neither selection nor admixture explains the distribution of this regionally specific marker. The simplest explanation for the ubiquity of this allele across the Americas is that the same founding population contributed a large fraction of ancestry to all modern Native American populations. |
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Schroeder, K.B Schurr, T.G Long, J.C Rosenberg, N.A Crawford, M.H Tarskaia, L.A Osipova, L.P Zhadanov, S.I Smith, D.G A private allele ubiquitous in the Americas |
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A private allele ubiquitous in the Americas |
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