Comments on: 4,000-year-old frozen hair mtDNA sequenced from a Greenlandic Saqqaq settlement. Pt. II http://anthropology.net/2008/06/04/4000-year-old-frozen-hair-mtdna-sequenced-from-a-greenlandic-saqqaq-settlement-pt-ii/ Beyond bones & stones Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:33:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Inuk’s Ancestry: The 4,000 Year-Old Paleo-Eskimo Genome « Anthropology.net http://anthropology.net/2008/06/04/4000-year-old-frozen-hair-mtdna-sequenced-from-a-greenlandic-saqqaq-settlement-pt-ii/#comment-16344 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:48:48 +0000 http://anthropologynet.wordpress.com/?p=894#comment-16344 [...] of the hair previously published in Science in 2008. We’ve covered that paper before, here and here. The previous study also showed patterns of Siberian origin, and a distinct break between [...]

]]> By: Luis http://anthropology.net/2008/06/04/4000-year-old-frozen-hair-mtdna-sequenced-from-a-greenlandic-saqqaq-settlement-pt-ii/#comment-11268 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:27:29 +0000 http://anthropologynet.wordpress.com/?p=894#comment-11268 Very nice and most interesting critical review of the findings.

Clearly D2a as awhole seems an American-only clade with some offshots in the Asian side of Beringia. Maybe it is only related to Sireniki and Aleuts (the other D2 ould be something different from D2a1 specifically), but these are still Beringian and therefore Native American populations, at least from a genetic and anthropological viewpoint.

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