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SUBMITTER: Schroeder KB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2375964 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schroeder K B KB Schurr T G TG Long J C JC Rosenberg N A NA Crawford M H MH Tarskaia L A LA Osipova L P LP Zhadanov S I SI Smith D G DG
Biology letters 20070401 2
The three-wave migration hypothesis of Greenberg et al. has permeated the genetic literature on the peopling of the Americas. Greenberg et al. proposed that Na-Dene, Aleut-Eskimo and Amerind are language phyla which represent separate migrations from Asia to the Americas. We show that a unique allele at autosomal microsatellite locus D9S1120 is present in all sampled North and South American populations, including the Na-Dene and Aleut-Eskimo, and in related Western Beringian groups, at an avera ...[more]