The Dual Origin and Siberian Affinities of Native American

• Main Authors: Y Chromosomes, Theodore G. Schurr, Peter A. Underhill, Douglas C. Wallace
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Okhotsk; The ''Y''; Chukotka; Chukotka Peninsula; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.589.4811; http://www.bionet.nsc.ru/labs/mtgenome/Publications/Lell_2002_DualOrigin.pdf

The Y chromosomes of 549 individuals from Siberia and the Americas were analyzed for 12 biallelic markers, which defined 15 haplogroups. The addition of four microsatellite markers increased the number of haplotypes to 111. The major Native American founding lineage, haplogroup M3, accounted for 66...