Some 140 million persons live permanently at high altitudes (> 2500 m) in North, Central
and South America, East Africa, and Asia. Reviewed here are recent studies which address …

▪ Abstract Over the past two decades, detailed studies of mitochondrial DNA and the Y
chromosome have increased our understanding of the history and population genetics of …

Native Americans from the Amazon, Andes, and coastal geographic regions of South
America have a rich cultural heritage but are genetically understudied, therefore leading to …

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 …

The geographic structure of Y-chromosome variability has been analyzed in native
populations of South America, through use of the high-frequency Native American …

We analyzed mtDNA sequence variation in 590 individuals from 18 south Amerindian
populations. The spatial pattern of mtDNA diversity in these populations fits well the model …

With analyses of entire mitogenomes, studies of Native American mitochondrial DNA
(mtDNA) variation have entered the final phase of phylogenetic refinement: the dissection of …

Abstract Extensive European and African admixture coupled with loss of Amerindian
lineages makes the reconstruction of pre-Columbian history of Native Americans based on …

In order to investigate the underlying genetic structure and genomic ancestry proportions of
Peruvian subpopulations, we analyzed 551 human samples of 25 localities from the …

Despite a long history of complex societies and despite extensive present‐day linguistic and
ethnic diversity, relatively few populations in Peru have been sampled for population genetic …