Article
Updated three-stage model for the peopling of the Americas.
PloS one - 17 Sept 2008
Mulligan Connie J, Kitchen Andrew, Miyamoto Michael M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: We re-assess support for our three stage model for the peopling of the Americas in light of a recent report that identified nine non-Native American mitochondrial genome sequences that should not have been included in our initial analysis. Removal of these sequences results in the elimination of an early (i.e. approximately 40,000 years ago) expansion signal we had proposed for the proto-Amerind...
Topics
- Algorithms
- Americas
- Bayes Theorem
- Computational Biology
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Ethnicity
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Genome
- Humans
- Indians, North American
- Likelihood Functions