Much of the American Arctic was first settled 5,000 years ago, by groups of people known as Palaeo-Eskimos. They were subsequently joined and largely displaced around 1,000 years ago by ancestors of the present-day Inuit and Yup'ik1-3. The genetic relationship between Palaeo-Eskimos and Native American, Inuit, Yup'ik and Aleut populations remains uncertain4-6. Here we present genomic data for 48 ancient individuals from Chukotka, East Siberia, the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and the Canadian Arctic. We co-analyse these data with data from present-day Alaskan Iñupiat and West Siberian populations and published genomes. Using methods based on rare-allele and haplotype sharing, as well as established techniques4,7-9, we show that Palaeo-Eskimo-related ancestry is ubiquitous among people who speak Na-Dene and Eskimo-Aleut languages. We develop a comprehensive model for the Holocene peopling events of Chukotka and North America, and show that Na-Dene-speaking peoples, people of the Aleutian Islands, and Yup'ik and Inuit across the Arctic region all share ancestry from a single Palaeo-Eskimo-related Siberian source.

Palaeo-Eskimo genetic ancestry and the peopling of Chukotka and North America / Flegontov, P., Altınışık, N.E., Changmai, P., Rohland, N., Mallick, S., Adamski, N., Bolnick, D.A., Broomandkhoshbacht, N., Candilio, F., Culleton, B.J., Flegontova, O., Friesen, T.M., Jeong, C., Harper, T.K., Keating, D., Kennett, D.J., Kim, A.M., Lamnidis, T.C., Lawson, A.M., Olalde, I., et al.. - In: NATURE. - ISSN 0028-0836. - 570:7760(2019), pp. 236-256. [10.1038/s41586-019-1251-y]

Palaeo-Eskimo genetic ancestry and the peopling of Chukotka and North America

CANDILIO, FRANCESCA;Pinhasi, Ron;
2019

Abstract

Much of the American Arctic was first settled 5,000 years ago, by groups of people known as Palaeo-Eskimos. They were subsequently joined and largely displaced around 1,000 years ago by ancestors of the present-day Inuit and Yup'ik1-3. The genetic relationship between Palaeo-Eskimos and Native American, Inuit, Yup'ik and Aleut populations remains uncertain4-6. Here we present genomic data for 48 ancient individuals from Chukotka, East Siberia, the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and the Canadian Arctic. We co-analyse these data with data from present-day Alaskan Iñupiat and West Siberian populations and published genomes. Using methods based on rare-allele and haplotype sharing, as well as established techniques4,7-9, we show that Palaeo-Eskimo-related ancestry is ubiquitous among people who speak Na-Dene and Eskimo-Aleut languages. We develop a comprehensive model for the Holocene peopling events of Chukotka and North America, and show that Na-Dene-speaking peoples, people of the Aleutian Islands, and Yup'ik and Inuit across the Arctic region all share ancestry from a single Palaeo-Eskimo-related Siberian source.
2019
ancient DNA; Palaeo-Eskimo; peopling of Chukotka and North America
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Palaeo-Eskimo genetic ancestry and the peopling of Chukotka and North America / Flegontov, P., Altınışık, N.E., Changmai, P., Rohland, N., Mallick, S., Adamski, N., Bolnick, D.A., Broomandkhoshbacht, N., Candilio, F., Culleton, B.J., Flegontova, O., Friesen, T.M., Jeong, C., Harper, T.K., Keating, D., Kennett, D.J., Kim, A.M., Lamnidis, T.C., Lawson, A.M., Olalde, I., et al.. - In: NATURE. - ISSN 0028-0836. - 570:7760(2019), pp. 236-256. [10.1038/s41586-019-1251-y]
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