Ancient DNA Analysis of Mid-Holocene Individuals from the Northwest Coast of North America Reveals Different Evolutionary Paths for Mitogenomes

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Cui, Yinqiu, Lindo, John, Hughes, Cris E., Johnson, Jesse W., Hernandez, Alvaro G., Kemp, Brian M., Ma, Jian, Cunningham, Ryan, Petzelt, Barbara, Mitchell, Joycellyn, Archer, David, Cybulski, Jerome S., Malhi, Ripan S.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2013
• Subjects: Research Article; British Columbia; Canada; Prince of Wales Island; Tsimshian; Tsimshian*; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3700925; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23843972; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0066948

To gain a better understanding of North American population history, complete mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) were generated from four ancient and three living individuals of the northern Northwest Coast of North America, specifically the north coast of British Columbia, Canada, current home to...