The peopling of the Americas has been the subject of extensive genetic, archaeological and
linguistic research; however, central questions remain unresolved 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 . One …

We sequenced the genomes of a ∼7,000-year-old farmer from Germany and eight ∼8,000-year-old
hunter-gatherers from Luxembourg and Sweden. We analysed these and other …

Only a limited number of complete mitochondrial genome sequences belonging to Native
American haplogroups were available until recently, which left America as the continent with …

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 …

Here we report the Simons Genome Diversity Project data set: high quality genomes from 300
individuals from 142 diverse populations. These genomes include at least 5.8 million base …

Native Americans derive from a small number of Asian founders who likely arrived to the
Americas via Beringia. However, additional details about the intial colonization of the Americas …

INTRODUCTION Most studies of human genetic variation have focused on single-nucleotide
variants (SNVs). However, copy-number variants (CNVs) affect more base pairs of DNA …

We analyze the allelic polymorphisms in seven Y-specific microsatellite loci and a Y-specific
alphoid system with 27 variants (αh I–XXVII), in a total of 89 Y chromosomes carrying the …

Phylogenies of indigenous microbes have been used as surrogates for the origins of the
hosts that carry them. Conversely, polymorphisms may be used to date the spread of a …

We used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y-chromosome DNA polymorphisms to analyze
the ethnic origin of maternal and paternal lineages in two Amerindian subpopulations from …