Paleo-Eskimo genetic legacy across North America

• Main Authors: Flegontov, P., Altinisik, N., Changmai, P., Rohland, N., Mallick, S., Bolnick, D., Candilio, F., Flegontova, O., Jeong, C., Harper, T., Keating, D., Kennett, D., Kim, A., Lamnidis, T., Olalde, I., Raff, J., Sattler, R., Skoglund, P., Vajda, E., Vasilyev, S., Veselovskaya, E., Hayes, M., O’Rourke, D., Pinhasi, R., Krause, J., Reich, D., Schiffels, S.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Arctic; Ust’-Belaya; aleut; eskimo*; Eskimo–Aleut; inuit; Paleo-Eskimo; Yupik; Aleutian Islands; Siberia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0004-5D08-C; http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0004-5D0A-A

Paleo-Eskimos were the first people to settle vast regions of the American Arctic around 5,000 years ago, and were subsequently joined and largely displaced around 1,000 years ago by ancestors of the present-day Inuit and Yupik. The genetic relationship between Paleo-Eskimos and Native American popu...