Mitochondrial DNA and Y Chromosome Variation Provides Evidence for a Recent Common Ancestry between Native Americans and Indigenous Altaians

• Published in: The American Journal of Human Genetics
• Main Authors: Dulik, Matthew C., Zhadanov, Sergey I., Osipova, Ludmila P., Askapuli, Ayken, Gau, Lydia, Gokcumen, Omer, Rubinstein, Samara, Schurr, Theodore G.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2012
• Subjects: Article; The ''Y''; samoyed*; Siberia
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3276666; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22281367; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2011.12.014

The Altai region of southern Siberia has played a critical role in the peopling of northern Asia as an entry point into Siberia and a possible homeland for ancestral Native Americans. It has an old and rich history because humans have inhabited this area since the Paleolithic. Today, the Altai regio...