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Mitochondrial genome diversity of Native Americans supports a single early entry of founder populations into America.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Jul 2002
Silva Wilson A, Bonatto Sandro L, Holanda Adriano J, Ribeiro-Dos-Santos Andrea K, Paixão Beatriz M, Goldman Gustavo H, Abe-Sandes Kiyoko, Rodriguez-Delfin Luis, Barbosa Marcela, Paçó-Larson Maria Luiza, Petzl-Erler Maria Luiza, Valente Valeria, Santos Sidney E B, Zago Marco A
Abstract excerpt
There is general agreement that the Native American founder populations migrated from Asia into America through Beringia sometime during the Pleistocene, but the hypotheses concerning the ages and the number of these migrations and the size of the ancestral populations are surrounded by controversy. DNA sequence variations of several regions of the genome of Native Americans, especially in the mitochondrial DNA...
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