title: mtDNA analysis of a prehistoric Oneota population: implications for the peopling of the New World.
abstract: mtDNA was successfully extracted from 108 individuals from the Norris Farms Oneota, a prehistoric Native American population, to compare the mtDNA diversity from a pre-Columbian population with contemporary Native American and Asian mtDNA lineages and to examine hypotheses about the peopling of the New World. Haplogroup and hypervariable region I sequence data indicate that the lineages from haplogroups A, B, C, and D are the most common among Native Americans but that they were not the only lineages brought into the New World from Asia. The mtDNA evidence does not support the three-wave hypothesis of migration into the New World but rather suggests a single "wave" of people with considerable mtDNA diversity that exhibits a signature of expansion 23,000-37,000 years ago.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA. acstone@u.arizona.edu
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Stone
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stoneking
mesh_terms: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000235:genetics*; D008432:Mathematical Computing; D011153:Population
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial