Anthropologists were quick to recognize the potential of new techniques in molecular
biology to provide additional lines of evidence on questions long investigated in …

▪ Abstract Nucleic acids are preserved in prehistoric samples under a wide range of
depositional environments. The development of new molecular methods, especially the …

" 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 …

We have analyzed 247 Brazilian mtDNAs for hypervariable segment (HVS)–I and selected
restriction fragment-length–polymorphism sites, to assess their ancestry in different …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

We analyzed admixture in samples of six different African‐American populations from South
Carolina: Gullah‐speaking Sea Islanders in coastal South Carolina, residents of four …

▪ 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 …