Article
An alternative model for the early peopling of southern South America revealed by analyses of three mitochondrial DNA haplogroups.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
de Saint Pierre Michelle, Bravi Claudio M, Motti Josefina M B, Fuku Noriyuki, Tanaka Masashi, Llop Elena, Bonatto Sandro L, Moraga Mauricio
Abstract excerpt
After several years of research, there is now a consensus that America was populated from Asia through Beringia, probably at the end of the Pleistocene. But many details such as the timing, route(s), and origin of the first settlers remain uncertain. In the last decade genetic evidence has taken on a major role in elucidating the peopling of the Americas. To study the early peopling of South America, we sequenced...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Bayes Theorem
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Emigration and Immigration
- Ethnicity
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Mitochondria
- Models, Biological
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation Rate