[Aztlan] New Research; Native Americans descended from one common founding population

[Jaime Andres Pretell]

Add to that, the one group that many Paleo Indians are compared to Ainu, 
actually have DNA which is somewhere between other Asian groups and Native 
American groups.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "michael ruggeri" <michaelruggeri at mac.com>
To: <aztlan at lists.famsi.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 1:38 PM
Subject: [Aztlan] New Research;Native Americans descended from one common 
founding population


>
> Listeros,
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> An international team of scientists have compared DNA samples from
> dozens of modern day Native American and Eurasian groups. Without
> exception, the new evidence supports the single ancestral population
> theory.
> The study is published in the May issue of the journal Molecular
> Biology and Evolution.
> The team found a unique variant (an allele) of a genetic marker in the
> DNA of modern day Native Americans. This variant occurred in all of
> the 41 populations sampled from Alaska to Chile but was absent in all
> 54 Eurasian, African and Oceanic groups studied.
> Therefore, it appears that all modern Native Americans and
> Greenlanders descend from a common founding population. The allele is
> absent in other Asian populations which probably means the Native
> Americans developed this variant in isolation from Asia. The
> researchers took care to rule out all other possibilities including
> multiple mutations. This is the first large scale study to confirm
> this utilizing the DNA of both sexes.
>
> E-Science News has the story here;
> http://esciencenews.com/articles/2009/04/29/native.americans.descended.a.single.ancestral.group.dna.study.confirms
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> A tiny URL;
> http://tinyurl.com/celhxr
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> Mike Ruggeri
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