Public demand and the development of large public and private databases of genetic
information across human populations has encouraged the development of the new and …

▪ 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 …

" Sometime before 15,000 years ago, a band of hunter-gatherers arrived in Northeast Asia.
They continued east, becoming the first people to set foot in the Americas. They soon found …

Native Americans derive from a small number of Asian founders who likely arrived to the
Americas via Beringia. However, additional details about the intial colonization of the …

American Indians (AIs) have some of the poorest documented health outcomes of any
racial/ethnic group. Research plays a vital role in addressing these health disparities …

The founding of New World populations by Asian peoples is the focus of considerable
archaeological and genetic research, and there persist important questions on when and …

Mitochondrial and Y‐chromosome DNA were analyzed from 10,300‐year‐old human
remains excavated from On Your Knees Cave on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska (Site 49 …

To scrutinize the male ancestry of extant Native American populations, we examined eight
biallelic and six microsatellite polymorphisms from the nonrecombining portion of the Y …

It is now widely agreed that the Native American founders originated from a Beringian
source population∼ 15–18 thousand years ago (kya) and rapidly populated all of the New …

Background We evaluate the process by which the Americas were originally colonized and
propose a three-stage model that integrates current genetic, archaeological, geological, and …