Article
mtDNA sequences suggest a recent evolutionary divergence for Beringian and northern North American populations.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Sept 1993
Shields G F, Schmiechen A M, Frazier B L, Redd A, Voevoda M I, Reed J K, Ward R H
Abstract excerpt
Conventional descriptions of the pattern and process of human entry into the New World from Asia are incomplete and controversial. In order to gain an evolutionary insight into this process, we have sequenced the control region of mtDNA in samples of contemporary tribal populations of eastern Sib...
Topics
- Alaska
- Arctic Regions
- Asian People
- Base Sequence
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Greenland
- Humans
- Indians, North American
- Inuit
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Northwestern United States
- Phylogeny
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Deletion
- Siberia