Mitochondrial Haplogroup M Discovered in Prehistoric North Americans
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ripan S. Malhi
Brian M. Kemp
Jason A. Eshleman
Jerome Cybulski
David Glenn Smith
Scott Cousins
Harold Harry
Journal of Archaeological Science , vol. 34, no. 4, April 2007, pp. 642-648
Description
Presents evidence of mitrochrondrial DNA of the haplogroup M, a group that is common in East Asia, but had never before been reported for Indigenous populations in North American. Estimates put the time frame at about five thousand years before present.