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, Pavel; Altınışık, N Ezgi; Changmai, Piya; Rohland, Nadin; Mallick, Swapan; Adamski, Nicole; Bolnick, Deborah A; Broomandkhoshbacht, Nasreen; Candilio, Francesca; Culleton, Brendan J; Flegontova, Olga; Friesen, T Max; Jeong, Choongwon; Harper, Thomas K; Keating, Denise; Kennett, Douglas J; Kim, Alexander M; Lamnidis, Thiseas C; Lawson, Ann Marie; Olalde, Iñigo; Oppenheimer, Jonas; Potter, Ben A; Raff, Jennifer; Sattler, Robert A; Skoglund, Pontus; Stewardson, Kristin; Vajda, Edward J; Vasilyev, Sergey; Veselovskaya, Elizaveta; Hayes, M Geoffrey; O'Rourke, Dennis H; Krause, Johannes; Pinhasi, Ron; Reich, David; Schiffels, Stephan. - 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.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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