Melanesian and Asian Origins of Polynesians: mtDNA and Y Chromosome Gradients Across the Pacific

Kayser, Manfred; Brauer, Silke; Cordaux, Richard; M. Casto, Amanda; Lao, Óscar; A. Zhivotovsky, Lev; Moyse‐Faurie, Claire; B. Rutledge, Robb; Schiefenhoevel, Wulf; Gil, David; A. Lin, Alice; A. Underhill, Peter; J. Oefner, Peter; J. Trent, Ronald; Stoneking, Mark

doi:10.1093/molbev/msl093

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Melanesian and Asian Origins of Polynesians: mtDNA and Y Chromosome Gradients Across the Pacific

Published in Molecular Biology and Evolution • Aug 21, 2006

Authors:

Manfred Kayser

Silke Brauer

Richard Cordaux

Abstract

The human settlement of the Pacific Islands represents one of the most recent major migration events of mankind. Polynesians originated in Asia according to linguistic evidence or in Melanesia according to archaeological evidence. To shed light on the genetic origins of Polynesians, we investigated ...

Subject

Polynesians

Haplogroup

Mitochondrial DNA

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