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South from Alaska: a pilot aDNA study of genetic history on the Alaska Peninsula and the eastern Aleutians.
Human biology - 1 Dec 2010
Raff Jennifer, Tackney Justin, O'Rourke Dennis H
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The Aleutian Islands were colonized, perhaps several times, from the Alaskan mainland. Earlier work documented transitions in the relative frequencies of mtDNA haplogroups over time, but little is known about potential source populations for prehistoric Aleut migrants. As part of a pilot investigation, we sequenced the mtDNA first hypervariable region (HVRI) in samples from two archaeological sites on the Alaska...
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