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DNA
STUDIES REVEAL CLOSE ANCESTRY OF SOME NATIVE
AMERICAN TRIBES WITH PEOPLES OF SIBERIA Scientists have long
suspected that Native Americans are closely related to the peoples of Siberia
and especially those of the Altai, which is a tiny region in Central
Russia. The Altai people are believed
to have migrated from Siberia across Chukotka and Alaska, and their
descendents south to Tierra del Fuego in South America. The DNA evidence now indicates that Native American ancestors initially reached America from Siberia at
most 23,000 years ago, only later differentiating into today’s distinct
groups. Now, after more than a century of speculation, an international group of
geneticists using DNA evidence has proven that the Aztecs, Incas, and
Iroquois are closely related to the peoples of Altai, in the Siberian region that
borders China and Mongolia. Altai is a key area because according to Dr Theodore
Schurr, from the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, people have
been moving in and out of that area for thousands of years. In 2015 the Russian geneticist, Oleg Balanovsky, finally confirmed
the theory. In addition, Dr.
Balanovsky's studies also proved that some Native Americans have kinship with
the indigenous populations of Australia. Research by Valery Ilyinsky at the RAS Institute of General
Genetics confirms the theory that the Altai peoples are closely related to
Native American tribes (see He Yu 2020).
Paleo Native Americans from Siberia would most likely have crossed
into the Americas across Beringia when a
Land Bridge was present. Paleo-Siberians are closely related to
Indigenous Americans as well as to East and Southeast Asian groups, with whom
they share a common origin from and Ancestral East Asian source population in
Mainland Southeast Asia. However, the
occasional ancient contacts in America by people from other world geographic
areas, such as Japan, Middle East and Africa do not seem to have affected the
genomes of present day Native Americans significantly (See ethnic1).
Additional analyses of
genetic markers has also been used to link groups of indigenous peoples. Studies focused on markers on the Y
chromosome, which is always inherited by sons from their fathers.
Haplogroup Q is a unique mutation shared among
most indigenous peoples of the Americas. Studies have found that 93.8% of Siberia's Ket people and 66.4%
of Siberia's Selkup people possess the mutation. The principal-component
analysis suggests a close genetic relatedness between some northern Native
Americans (the Chipewyan [Ojibwe] and the Cheyenne) and certain populations
of central/southern Siberia (particularly the Kets, Yakuts, Selkups,
and Altaians), at the resolution of major Y-chromosome haplogroups. This pattern agrees with the distribution
of mtDNA haplogroup X, which is found in North America, is absent from
eastern Siberia, but is present in the Altaians of southern central Siberia. The history of American
colonization remains a fertile area of continued study with new findings
being presented as research advances.
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Worldwide human emigrations
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Beringia 2022
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Beringia abt. 16,000 BCE
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Altai region of Siberia
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View of the Siberian Altai region
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SCENES FROM EASTERN & SOUTH-CENTRAL
SIBERIA
(Provision of photos from Siberia
is gratefully acknowledged)
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Siberia #1
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Siberia #2
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