Genetic evidence for two founding populations of the Americas

Nature

Volumn 525, Issue 7567, 2015, Pages 104-108

  Skoglund, Pontus ^a,b   Mallick, Swapan ^a,b,c   Bortolini, Maria Cátira ^d   Chennagiri, Niru ^a,b   Hünemeier, Tábita ^e   Petzl Erler, Maria Luiza ^f   Salzano, Francisco Mauro ^d   Patterson, Nick ^b   Reich, David ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; MORPHOLOGY; SKELETAL REMAINS; SKELETON;

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DISTANCE; HAPLOTYPE; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN; MIGRATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOUTH AMERICA; AUSTRALIA; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN GENOME; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

ANDAMANS; ANDAMANS AND NICOBARS; AUSTRALIA; MELANESIA; NEW GUINEA; SOUTH AMERICA;

AUSTRALIA; CENTRAL AMERICA; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INDIANS, CENTRAL AMERICAN; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; NEW GUINEA; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84940952798     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14895     Document Type: Article

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