Posted on 02/14/2007 10:58:14 AM PST by blam
Native American populations share gene signature
00:01 14 February 2007
NewScientist.com news service
Roxanne Khamsi
A distinctive, repeating sequence of DNA found in people living at the eastern edge of Russia is also widespread among Native Americans, according to a new study.
The finding lends support to the idea that Native Americans descended from a common founding population that lived near the Bering land bridge for some time.
Kari Schroeder at the University of California in Davis, US, and colleagues sampled the genes from various populations around the globe, including two at the eastern edge of Siberia, 53 elsewhere in Asia and 18 Native American populations. The study examined samples from roughly 1500 people in total, including 445 Native Americans.
The team looked for a series of nine repeating chunks of DNA, known as 9RA, which falls in a non-coding region of chromosome 9.
They found the 9RA sequence in at least one member of all the Native American populations tested, such as the Cherokee and Apache people. The two populations in eastern Siberia, where the Bering land bridge once connected Asia to North America, also tested positive for the 9RA sequence.
The 9RA sequence did not appear in any of the other Asian populations examined in the study, including those from other parts of Siberia, from Mongolia or Japan.
Multiple migrations?
According to Schroeder, the high prevalence of this gene marker among native populations of North and South America - and its absence in most of Asia - lends strong support to the idea that Native Americans can trace their ancestry to a common founding population.
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American Indians are a product of multiple migration. The latest migrations is what is the gene.
Yup, he was a Fake Indian.
Doesn't really sound all that rousing of an endorsement.
Even less so, when one looks at all the major milling around & changing of "ancestral territories" that has gone on among the tribes just since Europeans arrived.
Could that be a result of westward migration? or of bidirectional migration? Is the storied "land bridge" strictly one-way?
It get me all the time. Go here and click on 'Genetic Markers' (at the bottom) and see if you can help me locate the 9RA mentioned in this article.
martin, My brother and I want to have our DNA checked. How should we go about it? I don't know the first step.
He was actually from the Watsituya or Fugawe tribe. I'm not absolutely certain.
You are an evil person! Do you know how long I've been lost in that site! LOL! I'm still looking...
You're doing better than I am; I just know he wasn't Hekawi.
My sister and I both ordered our DNA test kits from here today for $107.50 each. She is asking for a mtDNA (female) and I'm asking for the Y chromosome (male) test.
Also, you may want to read this article too.
The Genographic Project (Have Your DNA Checked, Find Your Roots)"
Click the link I made in post #25...for more info.
LOL. I lose hours on these things.
This book will help you decipher your origins once you get your DNA done.
He may have pow wowed with the Sosumis..
Thanks again, I'll get it. I have pure Brit ancestry as far as I can tell. My husband has half Brit half French ancestry.
"If she is everyone's great great Grandmother, many centuries removed, then we're all cousins and AFRICAN-Whatevers!!!"
But where does the infusion of alien DNA fit in? I mean, perhaps we are all Vulcan-whatevers.
Perhaps you need to watch "2001 a Space Odyssey". Pay attention to the end where the Star Child is hovering over the Earth and smiling.
No no no . . . that's the NEXT phase of evolution.
The Obelisk was planted during the early stage of the humanoid's development. Whose to say there wasn't some "monkey businees" goin' on!
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