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Overview of the Americas’ First Peopling from a Patrilineal Perspective: New Evidence from the Southern Continent

Colombo, G, Traverso, L, Mazzocchi, L, Grugni, V, Rambaldi Migliore, N, Capodiferro, MR, Lombardo, G, Flores, R, Karmin, M, Rootsi, S, Ferretti, L, Olivieri, A, Torroni, A, Martiniano, R, Achilli, A, Raveane, A and Semino, O (2022) Overview of the Americas’ First Peopling from a Patrilineal Perspective: New Evidence from the Southern Continent. Genes, 13 (2). ISSN 2073-4425

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Abstract

Uniparental genetic systems are unique sex indicators and complement the study of autosomal diversity by providing landmarks of human migrations that repeatedly shaped the structure of extant populations. Our knowledge of the variation of the male-specific region of the Y chromosome in Native Americans is still rather scarce and scattered, but by merging sequence information from modern and ancient individuals, we here provide a comprehensive and updated phylogeny of the distinctive Native American branches of haplogroups C and Q. Our analyses confirm C-MPB373, C-P39, Q-Z780, Q-M848, and Q-Y4276 as the main founding haplogroups and identify traces of unsuccessful (pre-Q-F1096) or extinct (C-L1373*, Q-YP4010*) Y-chromosome lineages, indicating that haplogroup diversity of the founder populations that first entered the Americas was greater than that observed in the Indigenous component of modern populations. In addition, through a diachronic and phylogeographic dissection of newly identified Q-M848 branches, we provide the first Y-chromosome insights into the early peopling of the South American hinterland (Q-BY104773 and Q-BY15730) and on overlying inland migrations (Q-BY139813)

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: 0604 Genetics
Divisions: Biological & Environmental Sciences (from Sep 19)
Publisher: MDPI
Date Deposited: 07 Feb 2022 12:30
Last Modified: 07 Feb 2022 12:30
DOI or ID number: 10.3390/genes13020220
URI: https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/16241
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