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dc.contributor.authorRaff, Jennifer
dc.contributor.authorTackney, Justin C.
dc.contributor.authorO'Rourke, Dennis H.
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-02T15:51:04Z
dc.date.available2016-09-02T15:51:04Z
dc.date.issued2010-12
dc.identifier.citationRaff, J., Tackney, J., & O'Rourke, D. H. (2010). South from Alaska: a pilot aDNA study of genetic history on the Alaska Peninsula and the Eastern Aleutians. Human biology, 82(5-6), 677-693.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/21432
dc.description.abstractThe Aleutian Islands were colonized, perhaps several times, from the Alaskan mainland. Earlier work documented transitions in the relative frequencies of mtDNA haplogroups over time, but little is known about potential source populations for prehistoric Aleut migrants. As part of a pilot investigation, we sequenced the mtDNA first hypervariable region (HVRI) in samples from two archaeological sites on the Alaska Peninsula (the Hot Springs site near Port Moller, Alaska; and samples from a cluster of sites in the Brooks River area near Katmai National Park and Preserve) and one site from Prince William Sound (Mink Island). The sequences revealed not only the mtDNA haplogroups typically found in both ancient and modern Aleut populations (A2 and D2) but also haplogroups B2 and D1 in the Brooks River samples and haplogroup D3 in one Mink Islander. These preliminary results suggest greater mtDNA diversity in prehistoric populations than previously observed and facilitate reconstruction of migration scenarios from the peninsula into the Aleutian archipelago in the past.en_US
dc.publisherWayne State University Pressen_US
dc.rights© 2010 Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Michigan 48201-1309en_US
dc.subjectAleutian Islandsen_US
dc.subjectADNAen_US
dc.subjectHVRIen_US
dc.subjectMTDNA haplogroupsen_US
dc.subjectAleutian prehistoryen_US
dc.titleSouth from Alaska: A Pilot aDNA Study of Genetic History on the Alaska Peninsula and the Eastern Aleutiansen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
kusw.kuauthorO'Rourke, Dennis H.
kusw.kudepartmentAnthropologyen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.3378/027.082.0510en_US
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, publisher versionen_US
kusw.oapolicyThis item meets KU Open Access policy criteria.en_US
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