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Distribution of the four founding lineage haplotypes in native Americans suggests a single wave of migration for the New World
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The distribution of the four founding lineage haplogroups in Native Americans from North, Central, and South America shows a north to south increase in the frequency of lineage B and a North to South decrease in the frequency of lineage A. All four founding lineage haplogroups were detected in North, Central, and South America, and in Greenberg et al.'s ([1986] Curr. Anthropol. 27:477–497) three major linguistic groups (Amerind, NaDene, and Eskaleut), with all four haplogroups often found within a single population. Lineage A was the most common lineage in North America, regardless of language group. This overall distribution is most parsimonious with a single wave of migration into the New World which included multiple variants of all four founding lineage types. Torroni et al.'s ([1993a] Am. J. Hum. Genet. 53:563–590) report that lineage B has a more recent divergence time than theother three lineages can best be explained by multiple variants of lineagesA, C, and D, and fewer variants of lineage B entering the New World. Alternatively, there could have been multiple waves of migration from a single parent population in Asia/Siberia which repeatedly reintroduced the same lineages to the New World. © 1995 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
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- Merriwether, D. A., Rothhammer, F., & Ferrell, R. E.
- Venue
- American Journal of Physical Anthropology
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- Wiley
- Published
- 1995-12
- Volume
- 98
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 411-430
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- 0002-9483 (ISSN-L)
- 1096-8644
- OpenAlex
- W2009062292
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- 303
- References
- 4
- FWCI
- 7.91
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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