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Genetic evidence for two founding populations of the Americas

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  • Pontus Skoglund

    (Harvard Medical School
    Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT)

  • Swapan Mallick

    (Harvard Medical School
    Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School)

  • Maria Cátira Bortolini

    (Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)

  • Niru Chennagiri

    (Harvard Medical School
    Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT)

  • Tábita Hünemeier

    (Universidade de São Paulo)

  • Maria Luiza Petzl-Erler

    (Universidade Federal do Paraná)

  • Francisco Mauro Salzano

    (Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)

  • Nick Patterson

    (Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT)

  • David Reich

    (Harvard Medical School
    Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School)

Abstract

Previous genetic studies have suggested that the Americas were peopled by a single founding population of Eurasian origin, but a genome-wide study of 30 Native American groups shows that Amazonian Native Americans also have a second source of ancestry that is deeply related to indigenous Australians, New Guineans and Andaman Islanders.

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  • Pontus Skoglund & Swapan Mallick & Maria Cátira Bortolini & Niru Chennagiri & Tábita Hünemeier & Maria Luiza Petzl-Erler & Francisco Mauro Salzano & Nick Patterson & David Reich, 2015. "Genetic evidence for two founding populations of the Americas," Nature, Nature, vol. 525(7567), pages 104-108, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:525:y:2015:i:7567:d:10.1038_nature14895
    DOI: 10.1038/nature14895
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