Article
Founder mitochondrial haplotypes in Amerindian populations.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Jul 1994
Bailliet G, Rothhammer F, Carnese F R, Bravi C M, Bianchi N O
Abstract excerpt
It had been proposed that the colonization of the New World took place by three successive migrations from northeastern Asia. The first one gave rise to Amerindians (Paleo-Indians), the second and third ones to Nadene and Aleut-Eskimo, respectively. Variation in mtDNA has been used to infer the d...
Topics
- Americas
- Asia
- Asian People
- Base Sequence
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Indians, Central American
- Indians, North American
- Indians, South American
- Inuit
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny