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A single and early migration for the peopling of the Americas supported by mitochondrial DNA sequence data.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 4 Mar 1997
Bonatto S L, Salzano F M
Abstract excerpt
To evaluate the number and time of the migration(s) that colonized the New World we analyzed all available sequences of the first hypervariable segment of the human mitochondrial DNA control region, including 544 Native Americans. Sequence and population trees showed that the Amerind, Na-Dene, and Eskimo are significantly closer among themselves than anyone is to Asian populations, with the exception of the...
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