TY - JOUR
T1 - mtDNA analysis of a prehistoric Oneota population
T2 - Implications for the peopling of the New World
AU - Stone, Anne C.
AU - Stoneking, Mark
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank the Illinois State Museum, for permission to work with the Norris Farms collection. We would like to thank S. Pääbo, G. Milner, S. Sherry, and H. Harpending, for helpful discussion; Oliva Handt, for assistance with primer design; and David Steven, for computer assistance. This research was supported by an NSF dissertation improvement grant and by a grant from the L. B. S. Leakey Foundation to A.S. During 1 year of this research, A.S. was supported by a Fulbright Fellowship, in the laboratory of Dr. S. Pääbo, University of Munich.
PY - 1998/5
Y1 - 1998/5
N2 - mtDNA was successfully extracted from 108 individuals from the Norris Farms Oneota, a prehistoric Native American population, to compare the mtDNA diversity from a pre-Columbian population with contemporary Native American and Asian mtDNA lineages and to examine hypotheses about the peopling of the New World. Haplogroup and hypervariable region I sequence data indicate that the lineages from haplogroups A, B, C, and D are the most common among Native Americans but that they were not the only lineages brought into the New World from Asia. The mtDNA evidence does not support the three-wave hypothesis of migration into the New World but rather suggests a single 'wave' of people with considerable mtDNA diversity that exhibits a signature of expansion 23,000-37,000 years ago.
AB - mtDNA was successfully extracted from 108 individuals from the Norris Farms Oneota, a prehistoric Native American population, to compare the mtDNA diversity from a pre-Columbian population with contemporary Native American and Asian mtDNA lineages and to examine hypotheses about the peopling of the New World. Haplogroup and hypervariable region I sequence data indicate that the lineages from haplogroups A, B, C, and D are the most common among Native Americans but that they were not the only lineages brought into the New World from Asia. The mtDNA evidence does not support the three-wave hypothesis of migration into the New World but rather suggests a single 'wave' of people with considerable mtDNA diversity that exhibits a signature of expansion 23,000-37,000 years ago.
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U2 - 10.1086/301838
DO - 10.1086/301838
M3 - Article
C2 - 9545408
AN - SCOPUS:0031960613
SN - 0002-9297
VL - 62
SP - 1153
EP - 1170
JO - American Journal of Human Genetics
JF - American Journal of Human Genetics
IS - 5
ER -