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Analysis of mitochondrial DNA diversity in the aleuts of the commander islands and its implications for the genetic history of beringia.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Aug 2002
Derbeneva Olga A, Sukernik Rem I, Volodko Natalia V, Hosseini Seyed H, Lott Marie T, Wallace Douglas C
Abstract excerpt
The Aleuts are aboriginal inhabitants of the Aleutian archipelago, including Bering and Copper (Medny) Islands of the Commanders, and seem to be the survivors of the inhabitants of the southern belt of the Bering Land Bridge that connected Chukotka/Kamchatka and Alaska during the end of the Ice Age. Thirty mtDNA samples collected in the Commanders, as well as seven mtDNA samples from Sireniki Eskimos in Chukotka...
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