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Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans

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Raghavan, Maanasa, Steinrücken, Matthias, Harris, Kelley, Schiffels, Stephan, Rasmussen, Simon, DeGiorgio, Michael, Albrechtsen, Anders, Valdiosera, Cristina +93 more·2015·Science

Abstract

Genetic history of Native Americans: Several theories have been put forth as to the origin and timing of when Native American ancestors entered the Americas. To clarify this controversy, Raghavan et al. examined the genomic variation among ancient and modern individuals from Asia and the Americas. There is no evidence for multiple waves of entry or recurrent gene flow with Asians in northern populations. The earliest migrations occurred no earlier than 23,000 years ago from Siberian ancestors. Amerindians and Athabascans originated from a single population, splitting approximately 13,000 years ago. Science , this issue 10.1126/science.aab3884

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  • Another study using ancient and modern DNA reaffirmed the single-migration model for all Native Americans, detecting the same signal of gene flow from populations related to East Asians and, indirectly, to Australo-Melanesians but interpreting it as a later event.

    “However, another study using ancient and modern DNA reaffirmed the single-migration model for all Native Americans, detecting the same signal of gene flow from populations related to East Asians and, indirectly, to Australo-Melanesians but interpreting it as a later event.”
  • Native Americans appear to have diverged from Siberian ancestors ~20,000 ya, with another diversification occurring ~13,000 ya in the Americas leading to 'northern' and 'southern' Native American branches.

    “Native Americans appear to have diverged from Siberian ancestors ~20,000 ya, with another diversification occurring ~13,000 ya in the Americas leading to ‘northern’ and ‘southern’ Native American branches [38].”

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Raghavan, M., Steinrücken, M., Harris, K., Schiffels, S., Rasmussen, S., DeGiorgio, M., Albrechtsen, A., Valdiosera, C., Ávila-Arcos, M. C., Malaspinas, A.-S., Eriksson, A., Moltke, I., Metspalu, M., Homburger, J. R., Wall, J., Cornejo, O. E., Moreno-Mayar, J. V., Korneliussen, T. S., Pierre, T., Rasmussen, M., Campos, P. F., Damgaard, P. D. B., Allentoft, M. E., Lindo, J., Metspalu, E., Rodríguez-Varela, R., Mansilla, J., Henrickson, C., Seguin-Orlando, A., Malmström, H., Stafford, T., Shringarpure, S. S., Moreno-Estrada, A., Karmin, M., Tambets, K., Bergström, A., Xue, Y., Warmuth, V., Friend, A. D., Singarayer, J., Valdes, P., Balloux, F., Leboreiro, I., Vera, J. L., Rangel-Villalobos, H., Pettener, D., Luiselli, D., Davis, L. G., Heyer, E., Zollikofer, C. P. E., Ponce de León, M. S., Smith, C. I., Grimes, V., Pike, K.-A., Deal, M., Fuller, B. T., Arriaza, B., Standen, V., Luz, M. F., Ricaut, F., Guidon, N., Osipova, L., Voevoda, M. I., Posukh, O. L., Balanovsky, O., Lavryashina, M., Bogunov, Y., Khusnutdinova, E., Gubina, M., Balanovska, E., Fedorova, S., Litvinov, S., Malyarchuk, B., Derenko, M., Mosher, M. J., Archer, D., Cybulski, J., Petzelt, B., Mitchell, J., Worl, R., Norman, P. J., Parham, P., Kemp, B. M., Kivisild, T., Tyler-Smith, C., Sandhu, M. S., Crawford, M., Villems, R., Smith, D. G., Waters, M. R., Goebel, T., Johnson, J. R., Malhi, R. S., Jakobsson, M., Meltzer, D. J., Manica, A., Durbin, R., Bustamante, C. D., Song, Y. S., Nielsen, R., & Willerslev, E.
Affiliations
  • University of Copenhagen (DK)
  • University of Massachusetts Amherst (US)
  • University of California, Berkeley (US)
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute (GB)
  • Technical University of Denmark (DK)
  • Pennsylvania State University (US)
  • Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5–7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • University of Cambridge (GB)
  • Estonian Biocentre (EE)
  • Stanford University (US)
  • University of California, San Francisco (US)
  • Washington State University (US)
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
  • Centro Mixto, Universidad Complutense de Madrid–Instituto de Salud Carlos III de Evolución y Comportamiento Humano, Madrid, Spain.
  • Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Moneda 13, Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06060 Mexico City, Mexico.
  • University of Utah (US)
  • Uppsala University (SE)
  • Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Stanford University, 300 Pasteur Drive, Lane Building, Room L331, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
  • University of Reading (GB)
  • University of Bristol (GB)
  • Genetics Institute, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
  • National Institute of Anthropology and History (MX)
  • Escuela Nacional de AntropologÍa e Historia, Periférico Sur y Zapote s/n Colonia Isidro Fabela, Tlalpan, Isidro Fabela, 14030 Mexico City, Mexico.
  • Instituto de Investigación en Genética Molecular, Universidad de Guadalajara, Ocotlán, Mexico.
  • University of Bologna (IT)
  • Oregon State University (US)
  • Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Université Paris 7 Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Sorbonne Universités, Unité Eco-Anthropologie et Ethnobiologie (UMR7206), Paris, France.
  • University of Zurich (CH)
  • Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland.
  • La Trobe University (AU)
  • Memorial University of Newfoundland (CA)
  • University of California, Irvine (US)
  • University of Tarapacá (CL)
  • Fundação Museu do Homem Americano (BR)
  • Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagérie de Synthèse UMR-5288, CNRS, Université de Toulouse, 31073 Toulouse, France.
  • Fundação Museu do Homem Americano, Centro Cultural Sérgio Motta, Campestre, 64770-000 Sao Raimundo Nonato, Brazil.
  • Novosibirsk State University (RU)
  • Russian Academy of Sciences (RU)
  • Research Centre for Medical Genetics (RU)
  • Kemerovo State University (RU)
  • Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Gubkina 3, 119333 Moscow, Russia.
  • Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center of Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospekt Oktyabrya 71, 450054 Ufa, Russia.
  • Institute of Cytology and Genetics (RU)
  • Department of Molecular Genetics, Yakut Scientific Centre of Complex Medical Problems, Sergelyahskoe Shosse 4, 677010 Yakutsk, Russia.
  • Western Washington University (US)
  • Coast Mountain College (CA)
  • Western University (CA)
  • Metlakatla Treaty Office, Post Office Box 224, Prince Rupert, BC V8J 3P6, Canada.
  • Sealaska Heritage Institute (US)
  • Stanford Medicine (US)
  • Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK.
  • MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (GB)
  • University of Kansas (US)
  • University of California, Davis (US)
  • Texas A&M University (US)
  • Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (US)
Corresponding author
  • Raghavan, Maanasa
  • Steinrücken, Matthias
  • Harris, Kelley
  • Schiffels, Stephan
  • Rasmussen, Simon
  • DeGiorgio, Michael
  • Albrechtsen, Anders
  • Valdiosera, Cristina
  • Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo
  • Song, Yun S.
  • Nielsen, Rasmus
  • Willerslev, Eske
Venue
Science
Published
2015-08-21
Volume
349
Issue
6250
Pages
aab3884-aab3884
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
OpenAlex
W2104124522
Cited by
540
References
189
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41.71
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Funders
  • National Science Foundation (DMS-1201234, BCS-1025139)
  • National Institutes of Health (R01-GM094402, R01-AI17892, 2R01HG003229-09)
  • Social Science Research Council of Canada
  • Wenner-Gren Foundations
  • Wellcome Trust (98051)
  • Washington State University
  • European Research Council (ERC-2011-AdG 295733, 261213)
  • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/H005854/1)
  • Australian Research Council (FT0992258)
  • French National Research Agency (ANR-14-CE31-0013-01)
  • Swiss National Science Foundation (PBSKP3_143529)
  • Danish National Research Foundation
  • Estonian Science Foundation (8973)
  • Russian Foundation for Basic Research (13-06-00670, 14-0400725, 14-06-00384)
  • Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Mexico)
  • Lundbeck Foundation
  • Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) (CGL2009-12703-C03-03)
  • MICINN (BES-2010-030127)
  • Russian Science Fund (14-04-00827)
  • European Union European Regional Development Fund (IUT24-1)
  • Marie Curie Actions (300554)
  • Bernice Peltier Huber Charitable Trust
  • Stanford Graduate Fellowship
  • Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering
  • Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences Molecular and Cell Biology Programme
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
peopling of the Americas, Athabascan, Native Americans, gene flow, East Asian ancestry, population divergence, ancient genomes
MeSH terms
Americas, Humans, Indians, North American, Models, Genetic, Siberia, Genomics, History, Ancient, Gene Flow, Human Migration

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