Human genetic adaptation to high altitude

LG Moore - High altitude medicine & biology, 2001 - liebertpub.com
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 …

The peopling of the New World: Perspectives from molecular anthropology

TG Schurr - Annu. Rev. Anthropol., 2004 - annualreviews.org
▪ 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 …

Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans

M Raghavan, M Steinrücken, K Harris, S Schiffels… - Science, 2015 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The consensus view on the peopling of the Americas is that ancestors of
modern Native Americans entered the Americas from Siberia via the Bering Land Bridge …

Distinctive Paleo-Indian migration routes from Beringia marked by two rare mtDNA haplogroups

UA Perego, A Achilli, N Angerhofer, M Accetturo… - Current biology, 2009 - cell.com
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 …

Mitochondrial DNA diversity in indigenous populations of the southern extent of Siberia, and the origins of Native American haplogroups

EB Starikovskaya, RI Sukernik… - Annals of human …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
In search of the ancestors of Native American mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroups, we
analyzed the mtDNA of 531 individuals from nine indigenous populations in Siberia. All …

Genetic analysis of early holocene skeletal remains from Alaska and its implications for the settlement of the Americas

BM Kemp, RS Malhi, J McDonough… - American Journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Rapid coastal spread of First Americans: Novel insights from South America's Southern Cone mitochondrial genomes

M Bodner, UA Perego, G Huber, L Fendt… - Genome …, 2012 - genome.cshlp.org
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 …

An alternative model for the early peopling of southern South America revealed by analyses of three mitochondrial DNA haplogroups

M de Saint Pierre, CM Bravi, JMB Motti, N Fuku… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
After several years of research, there is now a consensus that America was populated from
Asia through Beringia, probably at the end of the Pleistocene. But many details such as the …

Mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome diversity and the peopling of the Americas: evolutionary and demographic evidence

TG Schurr, ST Sherry - American Journal of Human Biology, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
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. While there …

Detecting errors in mtDNA data by phylogenetic analysis

HJ Bandelt, P Lahermo, M Richards… - International journal of …, 2001 - Springer
Sequencing and documenting a sample of homologous DNA stretches is prone to copying
errors in a way rather analogous to the biological replication process. Previous attempts at …