Native Americans experienced a strong population bottleneck coincident with European contact

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 51, 2011, Pages 20444-20448

  O'Fallon, Brendan D ^a   Fehren Schmitz, Lars ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Coalescent analysis; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84855490600     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1112563108     Document Type: Article

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