Genomic insights into the origin and diversification of late maritime hunter-gatherers from the Chilean Patagonia.

ABSTRACT: Patagonia was the last region of the Americas reached by humans who entered the continent from Siberia ∼15,000-20,000 y ago. Despite recent genomic approaches to reconstruct the continental evolutionary history, regional characterization of ancient and modern genomes remains understudied. Exploring the genomic diversity within Patagonia is not just a valuable strategy to gain a better understanding of the history and diversification of human populations in the southernmost tip of the Americas, but it would also improve the representation of Native American diversity in global databases of human variation. Here, we present genome data from four modern populations from Central Southern Chile and Patagonia (n = 61) and four ancient maritime individuals from Patagonia (∼1,000 y old). Bo

SUBMITTER: de la Fuente C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5924884 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature