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Native American Populations Share Gene Signature
New Scientist ^ | 2-14-2007 | Roxanne Khamsi

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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KEYWORDS: american; amerindian; amerindians; ancestry; bering; beringstrait; gene; genealogy; genetics; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; native; origin; origins; siberia; signature
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To: blam

American Indians are a product of multiple migration. The latest migrations is what is the gene.


21 posted on 02/14/2007 1:59:57 PM PST by Ptarmigan (Ptarmigans will rise again!)
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To: Vaquero
a Sicilian

Yup, he was a Fake Indian.

22 posted on 02/14/2007 2:53:13 PM PST by happygrl
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To: blam
They found the 9RA sequence in at least one member of all the Native American populations tested,

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.

23 posted on 02/14/2007 6:01:47 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: blam

Could that be a result of westward migration? or of bidirectional migration? Is the storied "land bridge" strictly one-way?


24 posted on 02/14/2007 6:10:24 PM PST by ThanhPhero (di hanh huong den La Vang)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum
"OK, blam, you caught me lost in the Journey of Mankind for maybe the 4th time...LOL! "

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.

25 posted on 02/14/2007 6:30:54 PM PST by blam
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To: martin_fierro

martin, My brother and I want to have our DNA checked. How should we go about it? I don't know the first step.


26 posted on 02/14/2007 6:39:30 PM PST by Ditter
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To: Vaquero

He was actually from the Watsituya or Fugawe tribe. I'm not absolutely certain.


27 posted on 02/14/2007 6:52:36 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: blam

You are an evil person! Do you know how long I've been lost in that site! LOL! I'm still looking...


28 posted on 02/14/2007 8:08:42 PM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: sheik yerbouty
He was actually from the Watsituya or Fugawe tribe. I'm not absolutely certain.

You're doing better than I am; I just know he wasn't Hekawi.

29 posted on 02/14/2007 8:09:39 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: Ditter
"martin, My brother and I want to have our DNA checked. How should we go about it? I don't know the first step."

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.

30 posted on 02/14/2007 8:51:06 PM PST by blam
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To: Knitting A Conundrum
"You are an evil person! Do you know how long I've been lost in that site! LOL! I'm still looking..."

LOL. I lose hours on these things.

31 posted on 02/14/2007 8:52:04 PM PST by blam
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To: blam
Thanks blam, that is just the kind of advice I have been wanting.
32 posted on 02/14/2007 8:55:20 PM PST by Ditter
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To: Ditter
You may consider reading this book too. I've begun reading it for the 2nd time.

Origins Of The British

This book will help you decipher your origins once you get your DNA done.

33 posted on 02/14/2007 9:19:14 PM PST by blam
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To: ApplegateRanch

He may have pow wowed with the Sosumis..


34 posted on 02/14/2007 11:23:41 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: blam

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.


35 posted on 02/15/2007 3:15:58 AM PST by Ditter
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To: blam
"The two populations in eastern Siberia, where the Bering land bridge once connected Asia to North America, also tested positive for the 9RA sequence." Ain't chain migration just grand!
36 posted on 02/15/2007 5:11:28 AM PST by Sam Ketcham (Amnesty means vote dilution, & increased taxes to bring us down to the world poverty level.)
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To: Young Werther

"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.


37 posted on 02/15/2007 5:19:31 AM PST by Lee'sGhost (Crom! Non-Sequitur = Pee Wee Herman.)
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To: Lee'sGhost

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.


38 posted on 02/15/2007 6:28:09 AM PST by Young Werther
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To: Young Werther

No no no . . . that's the NEXT phase of evolution.


39 posted on 02/15/2007 7:05:06 AM PST by Lee'sGhost (Crom! Non-Sequitur = Pee Wee Herman.)
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To: Lee'sGhost

The Obelisk was planted during the early stage of the humanoid's development. Whose to say there wasn't some "monkey businees" goin' on!


40 posted on 02/15/2007 7:35:45 AM PST by Young Werther
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