Terminal Pleistocene Alaskan genome reveals first founding population of Native Americans

J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar, Ben A. Potter, Lasse Vinner, Matthias Steinrücken, Simon Rasmussen, Jonathan Terhorst, John A. Kamm, Anders Albrechtsen, Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, Martin Sikora, Joshua D. Reuther, Joel D. Irish, Ripan S. Malhi, Ludovic Orlando, Yun S. Song, Rasmus Nielsen, David J. Meltzer and Eske Willerslev ()
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J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar: Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen
Ben A. Potter: University of Alaska
Lasse Vinner: Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen
Matthias Steinrücken: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Simon Rasmussen: Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark
Jonathan Terhorst: University of California
John A. Kamm: University of California
Anders Albrechtsen: The Bioinformatics Centre, University of Copenhagen
Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas: Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen
Martin Sikora: Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen
Joshua D. Reuther: University of Alaska
Joel D. Irish: Research Centre in Evolutionary Anthropology and Palaeoecology, Liverpool John Moores University
Ripan S. Malhi: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ludovic Orlando: Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen
Yun S. Song: University of California
Rasmus Nielsen: Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen
David J. Meltzer: Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen
Eske Willerslev: Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen

Nature, 2018, vol. 553, issue 7687, 203-207

Abstract: An Ancient Beringian population from Late Pleistocene Alaska and the ancestors of other Native American groups descended from a single founding population that diversified around twenty thousand years ago.

Date: 2018
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