Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Raghavan, Maanasa, Steinrücken, Matthias, Harris, Kelley, Schiffels, Stephan, Rasmussen, Simon, Degiorgio, Michael, Albrechtsen, Anders, Valdiosera, Cristina, Ávila-Arcos, María, Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo, Eriksson, Anders, Moltke, Ida, Metspalu, Mait, Homburger, Julian, Wall, Jeff, Cornejo, Omar, Moreno-Mayar, J. Víctor, Korneliussen, Thorfinn, Pierre, Tracey, Rasmussen, Morten, Campos, Paula, Damgaard, Peter de Barros, Allentoft, Morten, Lindo, John, Metspalu, Ene, Rodríguez-Varela, Ricardo, Mansilla, Josefina, Henrickson, Celeste, Seguin-Orlando, Andaine, Malmström, Helena, Stafford, Thomas, Shringarpure, Suyash, Moreno-Estrada, Andrés, Karmin, Monika, Tambets, Kristiina, Bergström, Anders, Xue, Yali, Warmuth, Vera, Friend, Andrew, Singarayer, Joy, Valdes, Paul, Balloux, François, Leboreiro, Ilán, Vera, Jose Luis, Rangel-Villalobos, Hector, Pettener, Davide, Luiselli, Donata, Davis, Loren, Heyer, Evelyne, Zollikofer, Christoph, Ponce de León, Marcia, Smith, Colin, Grimes, Vaughan, Pike, Kelly-Anne, Deal, Michael, Fuller, Benjamin, Arriaza, Bernardo, Standen, Vivien, Luz, Maria, Ricaut, Francois, Guidon, Niede, Osipova, Ludmila, Voevoda, Mikhail, Posukh, Olga, Balanovsky, Oleg, Lavryashina, Maria, Bogunov, Yuri, Khusnutdinova, Elza, Gubina, Marina, Balanovska, Elena, Fedorova, Sardana, Litvinov, Sergey, Malyarchuk, Boris, Derenko, Miroslava, Mosher, M., Archer, David, Cybulski, Jerome, Petzelt, Barbara, Mitchell, Joycelynn, Worl, Rosita, Norman, Paul, Parham, Peter, Kemp, Brian, M., Kivisild, Toomas, Tyler-Smith, Chris, Sandhu, Manjinder, S., Crawford, Michael, Villems, Richard, Smith, David Glenn, Waters, Michael, Goebel, Ted, Johnson, John, R., Malhi, Ripan, Jakobsson, Mattias, Meltzer, David, Manica, Andrea, Durbin, Richard, Bustamante, Carlos, D., Song, Yun, Nielsen, Rasmus, Willerslev, Eske
• Other Authors: Natural History Museum of Denmark, Faculty of Science Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH), University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley), University of California (UC), University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst), University of Massachusetts System (UMASS), The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Cambridge, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet = Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), Penn State System, University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH), La Trobe University, Stanford University, Department of Zoology Cambridge, University of Cambridge UK (CAM), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Saudi Arabia (KAUST), University of Tartu, University of California San Francisco (UC San Francisco), Washington State University (WSU), Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research Matosinhos, Portugal (CIIMAR), Universidade do Porto = University of Porto, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana (UIUC), University of Illinois System, Universidad Complutense de Madrid = Complutense University of Madrid Madrid (UCM), Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia Mexico (INAH-Mexico), University of Utah, Uppsala University, Aarhus University Aarhus, Langebio (CINVESTAV), University College of London London (UCL), Department of Geography Cambridge, UK, Centre for Past Climate Change (CPCC), University of Reading (UOR), School of Geographical Sciences Bristol, University of Bristol Bristol, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH), Universidad de Guadalajara, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna = University of Bologna (UNIBO), Oregon State University (OSU), Eco-Anthropologie et Ethnobiologie (EAE), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universität Zürich Zürich = University of Zurich (UZH), Memorial University of Newfoundland = Université Memorial de Terre-Neuve St. John's, Canada (MUN), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, University of California Irvine (UC Irvine), Universidad de Tarapaca, Fundaçao Museu do Homem Americano (FUMDHAM), Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse (AMIS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2015
• Subjects: [SHS.ANTHRO-BIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Biological anthropology; [SDV.BID.EVO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Populations and Evolution [q-bio.PE]; [SDV.GEN.GH]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Human genetics; Beringia; Siberia
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-02112773; https://hal.science/hal-02112773/document; https://hal.science/hal-02112773/file/emss-64881.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aab3884

International audience How and when the Americas were populated remains contentious. Using ancient and modern genome-wide data, we found that the ancestors of all present-day Native Americans, including Athabascans and Amerindians, entered the Americas as a single migration wave from Siberia no earlier than 23 thousand years ago (ka) and after no more than an 8000-year isolation period in Beringia. After their arrival to the Americas, ancestral Native Americans diversified into two basal genetic branches around 13 ka, one that is now dispersed across North and South America and the other restricted to North America. Subsequent gene flow resulted in some Native Americans sharing ancestry with present-day East Asians (including Siberians) and, more distantly, Australo-Melanesians. Putative "Paleoamerican" relict populations, including the historical Mexican Pericúes and South American Fuego-Patagonians, are not directly related to modern Australo-Melanesians as suggested by the Paleoamerican Model.