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Terminal Pleistocene Alaskan genome reveals first founding population of Native Americans

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  • J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar

    (Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen)

  • Ben A. Potter

    (University of Alaska)

  • Lasse Vinner

    (Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen)

  • Matthias Steinrücken

    (University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    University of Chicago)

  • Simon Rasmussen

    (Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark)

  • Jonathan Terhorst

    (University of California
    University of Michigan)

  • John A. Kamm

    (University of California
    Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus)

  • Anders Albrechtsen

    (The Bioinformatics Centre, University of Copenhagen)

  • Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas

    (Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen
    University of Lausanne
    Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)

  • Martin Sikora

    (Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen)

  • Joshua D. Reuther

    (University of Alaska)

  • Joel D. Irish

    (Research Centre in Evolutionary Anthropology and Palaeoecology, Liverpool John Moores University)

  • Ripan S. Malhi

    (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Carle R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

  • Ludovic Orlando

    (Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen)

  • Yun S. Song

    (University of California
    University of California, Berkeley
    Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco)

  • Rasmus Nielsen

    (Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen
    University of California
    University of California)

  • David J. Meltzer

    (Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen
    Southern Methodist University)

  • Eske Willerslev

    (Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen
    Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus
    University of Cambridge, Downing Street)

Abstract

An Ancient Beringian population from Late Pleistocene Alaska and the ancestors of other Native American groups descended from a single founding population that diversified around twenty thousand years ago.

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  • J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar & Ben A. Potter & Lasse Vinner & Matthias Steinrücken & Simon Rasmussen & Jonathan Terhorst & John A. Kamm & Anders Albrechtsen & Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas & Martin Sikora & Joshua , 2018. "Terminal Pleistocene Alaskan genome reveals first founding population of Native Americans," Nature, Nature, vol. 553(7687), pages 203-207, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:553:y:2018:i:7687:d:10.1038_nature25173
    DOI: 10.1038/nature25173
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    1. Bárbara Sousa da Mota & Simone Rubinacci & Diana Ivette Cruz Dávalos & Carlos Eduardo G. Amorim & Martin Sikora & Niels N. Johannsen & Marzena H. Szmyt & Piotr Włodarczak & Anita Szczepanek & Marcin M, 2023. "Imputation of ancient human genomes," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-17, December.

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