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

Overview of attention for article published in Science, July 2015
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Title
Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans
Published in
Science, July 2015
DOI 10.1126/science.aab3884
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Authors

Maanasa Raghavan, Matthias Steinrücken, Kelley Harris, Stephan Schiffels, Simon Rasmussen, Michael DeGiorgio, Anders Albrechtsen, Cristina Valdiosera, María C Ávila-Arcos, Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, Anders Eriksson, Ida Moltke, Mait Metspalu, Julian R Homburger, Jeff Wall, Omar E Cornejo, J Víctor Moreno-Mayar, Thorfinn S Korneliussen, Tracey Pierre, Morten Rasmussen, Paula F Campos, Peter de Barros Damgaard, Morten E Allentoft, John Lindo, Ene Metspalu, Ricardo Rodríguez-Varela, Josefina Mansilla, Celeste Henrickson, Andaine Seguin-Orlando, Helena Malmström, Thomas Stafford, Suyash S Shringarpure, Andrés Moreno-Estrada, Monika Karmin, Kristiina Tambets, Anders Bergström, Yali Xue, Vera Warmuth, Andrew D Friend, Joy Singarayer, Paul Valdes, Francois Balloux, Ilán Leboreiro, Jose Luis Vera, Hector Rangel-Villalobos, Davide Pettener, Donata Luiselli, Loren G Davis, Evelyne Heyer, Christoph P E Zollikofer, Marcia S Ponce de León, Colin I Smith, Vaughan Grimes, Kelly-Anne Pike, Michael Deal, Benjamin T Fuller, Bernardo Arriaza, Vivien Standen, Maria F Luz, Francois Ricaut, Niede Guidon, Ludmila Osipova, Mikhail I Voevoda, Olga L Posukh, Oleg Balanovsky, Maria Lavryashina, Yuri Bogunov, Elza Khusnutdinova, Marina Gubina, Elena Balanovska, Sardana Fedorova, Sergey Litvinov, Boris Malyarchuk, Miroslava Derenko, M J Mosher, David Archer, Jerome Cybulski, Barbara Petzelt, Joycelynn Mitchell, Rosita Worl, Paul J Norman, Peter Parham, Brian M Kemp, Toomas Kivisild, Chris Tyler-Smith, Manjinder S Sandhu, Michael Crawford, Richard Villems, David Glenn Smith, Michael R Waters, Ted Goebel, John R Johnson, Ripan S Malhi, Mattias Jakobsson, David J Meltzer, Andrea Manica, Richard Durbin, Carlos D Bustamante, Yun S Song, Rasmus Nielsen, Eske Willerslev

Abstract

How and when the Americas were populated remains contentious. Using ancient and modern genome-wide data, we find that the ancestors of all present-day Native Americans, including Athabascans and Amerindians, entered the Americas as a single migration wave from Siberia no earlier than 23 thousand years ago (KYA), and after no more than 8,000-year isolation period in Beringia. Following their arrival to the Americas, ancestral Native Americans diversified into two basal genetic branches around 13 KYA, one that is now dispersed across North and South America and the other is restricted to North America. Subsequent gene flow resulted in some Native Americans sharing ancestry with present-day East Asians (including Siberians) and, more distantly, Australo-Melanesians. Putative 'Paleoamerican' relict populations, including the historical Mexican Pericúes and South American Fuego-Patagonians, are not directly related to modern Australo-Melanesians as suggested by the Paleoamerican Model.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 9 1%
Brazil 4 <1%
United Kingdom 3 <1%
Germany 3 <1%
Canada 3 <1%
France 2 <1%
Sweden 2 <1%
Denmark 2 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
Other 9 1%
Unknown 742 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 198 25%
Researcher 125 16%
Student > Bachelor 110 14%
Student > Master 80 10%
Professor 40 5%
Other 130 17%
Unknown 98 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 249 32%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 144 18%
Social Sciences 65 8%
Arts and Humanities 45 6%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 32 4%
Other 126 16%
Unknown 120 15%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 698. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 February 2024.
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Outputs from Science
#1,307
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