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Mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome variation provides evidence for a recent common ancestry between Native Americans and Indigenous Altaians

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Dulik, Matthew C., Zhadanov, Sergey I., Osipova, Ludmila P., Askapuli, Ayken, Gau, Lydia, Gokcumen, Omer, Rubinstein, Samara, Schurr, Theodore G.·2012·The American Journal of Human Genetics

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The Altai region of southern Siberia has played a critical role in the peopling of northern Asia as an entry point into Siberia and a possible homeland for ancestral Native Americans. It has an old and rich history because humans have inhabited this area since the Paleolithic. Today, the Altai region is home to numerous Turkic-speaking ethnic groups, which have been divided into northern and southern clusters based on linguistic, cultural, and anthropological traits. To untangle Altaian genetic histories, we analyzed mtDNA and Y chromosome variation in northern and southern Altaian populations. All mtDNAs were assayed by PCR-RFLP analysis and control region sequencing, and the nonrecombining portion of the Y chromosome was scored for more than 100 biallelic markers and 17 Y-STRs. Based on these data, we noted differences in the origin and population history of Altaian ethnic groups, with northern Altaians appearing more like Yeniseian, Ugric, and Samoyedic speakers to the north, and southern Altaians having greater affinities to other Turkic speaking populations of southern Siberia and Central Asia. Moreover, high-resolution analysis of Y chromosome haplogroup Q has allowed us to reshape the phylogeny of this branch, making connections between populations of the New World and Old World more apparent and demonstrating that southern Altaians and Native Americans share a recent common ancestor. These results greatly enhance our understanding of the peopling of Siberia and the Americas.

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  • Indigenous Americans have similar archaic allele frequencies to other Asian populations.

    “The increased Denisovan variation in Indigenous American ancestry tracts compared with European ancestry tracts suggests that Indigenous Americans have similar archaic allele frequencies to other Asian populations, consistent with their shared history (Dulik et al. 2012; Raghavan et al. 2014).”

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Authors
Dulik, M. C., Zhadanov, S. I., Osipova, L. P., Askapuli, A., Gau, L., Gokcumen, O., Rubinstein, S., & Schurr, T. G.
Affiliations
  • University of Pennsylvania (US)
  • Institute of Cytology and Genetics (RU)
  • National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan (KZ)
Corresponding author
Schurr, Theodore G.
Venue
The American Journal of Human Genetics
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2012-02
Volume
90
Issue
2
Pages
229-246
ISSN
0002-9297 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2125706337
Cited by
161
References
143
Citations by year
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FWCI
10.38
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • The American Journal of Human Genetics (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Forensic and Genetic Research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
Keywords
Altaians, Native Americans, mitochondrial DNA, Y chromosome, Y-chromosome short tandem repeats, peopling of the Americas, Turkic-speaking populations, population structure, common ancestry, Altai region
MeSH terms
DNA, Mitochondrial, Female, Geography, Haplotypes, Humans, Indians, North American, Male, Phylogeny, Siberia, Genetic Variation, Chromosomes, Human, Y, Asian People, Phylogeography

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