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Brief communication: Haplogroup X confirmed in prehistoric North America
Ripan S Malhi1, David Glenn Smith
1Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0618, USA. malhi@umich.edu
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
|September 5, 2002
Abstract:
Haplogroup X represents approximately 3% of all modern Native North American mitochondrial lineages. Using RFLP and hypervariable segment I (HVSI) sequence analyses, we identified a prehistoric individual radiocarbon dated to 1,340 +/- 40 years BP that is a member of haplogroup X, found near the Columbia River in Vantage, Washington. The presence of haplogroup X in prehistoric North America, along with recent findings of haplogroup X in southern Siberians, confirms the hypothesis that haplogroup X is a founding lineage.