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Sunday, May 17, 2009

Native American Migration

This paper supports the idea that modern day Native Americans are descended from a group that emigrated in one wave known as the single ancestral population theory.  This group from a number of different Universities used genetic markers (esp. the 9-repeat allele) and sampling from 41 popluations from Alaska to Chile as well as natives from Greenland and the Asian side of the Bering Strait.

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