▪ Abstract Several unique properties of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), including its
high copy number, maternal inheritance, lack of recombination, and high mutation rate, have …

▪ Abstract A number of important insights into the peopling of the New World have been
gained through molecular genetic studies of Siberian and Native American populations …

Human mitochondrial DNA is widely used as tool in many fields including evolutionary
anthropology and population history, medical genetics, genetic genealogy, and forensic …

Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story,
mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that …

The timing of the first human migration into the Americas and its relation to the appearance
of the Clovis technological complex in North America at about 11,000 to 10,800 radiocarbon …

It is well accepted that the Americas were the last continents reached by modern humans,
most likely through Beringia. However, the precise time and mode of the colonization of the …

Background It is widely accepted that the ancestors of Native Americans arrived in the New
World via Beringia approximately 10 to 30 thousand years ago (kya). However, the arrival …

Background Recent advances in the understanding of the maternal and paternal heritage of
south and southwest Asian populations have highlighted their role in the colonization of …

Only a limited number of complete mitochondrial genome sequences belonging to Native
American haplogroups were available until recently, which left America as the continent with …

To elucidate the human colonization process of northern Asia and human dispersals to the
Americas, a diverse subset of 71 mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) lineages was chosen for …