Native American Populations Share Gene Signature

New Scientist ^ | 2-14-2007 | Roxanne Khamsi

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Just updating the GGG info, not sending a general distribution. A distinctive, repeating sequence of DNA found in people living at the eastern edge of Russia is also widespread among Native Americans, according to a new study. The finding lends support to the idea that Native Americans descended from a common founding population that lived near the Bering land bridge for some time. The finding lends support to the idea that Native Americans are the ancestors of the population that lives near the Bering strait today. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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Note: this topic is from 02/14/2007. Thanks again blam. Primary blood type is coded on chromosome 9.

...sampled the genes from various populations around the globe, including two at the eastern edge of Siberia, 53 elsewhere in Asia and 18 Native American populations. The study examined samples from roughly 1500 people in total, including 445 Native Americans. The team looked for a series of nine repeating chunks of DNA, known as 9RA, which falls in a non-coding region of chromosome 9. They found the 9RA sequence in at least one member of all the Native American populations tested, such as the Cherokee and Apache people. The two populations in eastern Siberia, where the Bering land bridge once connected Asia to North America, also tested positive for the 9RA sequence. The 9RA sequence did not appear in any of the other Asian populations examined in the study, including those from other parts of Siberia, from Mongolia or Japan.

Each of the two samples from the eastern edge of Siberia showed the sequence, and at least one sample in each of the tribal American groups? Sounds very much like an accidental survival, and a hide-and-seek / cherry-picking approach to science.