Genetic evidence for two founding populations of the Americas

Pontus Skoglund (), Swapan Mallick, Maria Cátira Bortolini, Niru Chennagiri, Tábita Hünemeier, Maria Luiza Petzl-Erler, Francisco Mauro Salzano, Nick Patterson and David Reich ()
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Pontus Skoglund: Harvard Medical School
Swapan Mallick: Harvard Medical School
Maria Cátira Bortolini: Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Niru Chennagiri: Harvard Medical School
Tábita Hünemeier: Universidade de São Paulo
Maria Luiza Petzl-Erler: Universidade Federal do Paraná
Francisco Mauro Salzano: Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Nick Patterson: Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
David Reich: Harvard Medical School

Nature, 2015, vol. 525, issue 7567, 104-108

Abstract: Previous genetic studies have suggested that the Americas were peopled by a single founding population of Eurasian origin, but a genome-wide study of 30 Native American groups shows that Amazonian Native Americans also have a second source of ancestry that is deeply related to indigenous Australians, New Guineans and Andaman Islanders.

Date: 2015
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