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Genetic evidence for two founding populations of the Americas.

ABSTRACT: Genetic studies have consistently indicated a single common origin of Native American groups from Central and South America. However, some morphological studies have suggested a more complex picture, whereby the northeast Asian affinities of present-day Native Americans contrast with a distinctive morphology seen in some of the earliest American skeletons, which share traits with present-day Australasians (indigenous groups in Australia, Melanesia, and island Southeast Asia). Here we analyse genome-wide data to show that some Amazonian Native Americans descend partly from a Native American founding population that carried ancestry more closely related to indigenous Australians, New Guineans and Andaman Islanders than to any present-day Eurasians or Native Americans. This signature is not present to the same extent, or at all, in present-day Northern and Central Americans or in a ?12,600-year-old Clovis-associated genome, suggesting a more diverse set of founding populations of the Americas than previously accepted.

SUBMITTER: Skoglund P

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4982469 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Genetic evidence for two founding populations of the Americas.

Skoglund Pontus P Mallick Swapan S Bortolini Maria Cátira MC Chennagiri Niru N Hünemeier Tábita T Petzl-Erler Maria Luiza ML Salzano Francisco Mauro FM Patterson Nick N Reich David D

Nature 20150721 7567

Genetic studies have consistently indicated a single common origin of Native American groups from Central and South America. However, some morphological studies have suggested a more complex picture, whereby the northeast Asian affinities of present-day Native Americans contrast with a distinctive morphology seen in some of the earliest American skeletons, which share traits with present-day Australasians (indigenous groups in Australia, Melanesia, and island Southeast Asia). Here we analyse gen ...[more]

PMID: 26196601

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Genetic evidence for two founding populations of the Americas.

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Genetic evidence for two founding populations of the Americas.

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