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From: "Ray Vick" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] mtDNA of H in Native American
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:27:06 -0700
In-Reply-To: <BAY111-DAV6F35EDB47B03B9728AFAFB16A0@phx.gbl>


Sorry if it is obvious by my question that I haven't been following this
thread.

Is there any evidence of ancient "European" YDNA in Am Ind? I always think
of Am Ind as Q3 although McDonald's YDNA map shows they have other YDNA (C
or M?). I have often wondered how accurate the haplotype distribution is
for North American Indians (I am supposedly 1/16 Am Ind so I hope I am not
entirely Euro-centric) given what I understand to be a great deal of
movement and intermixing with whites and to some extent black Africans over
the past 400 or so years (or 500 in Mexico).

I can understand someone from the Genographic project seeking out backwater
tribes in Africa or Asia (or even Europe?) to hopefully get "pure" or
"representative" samples but how does one do that in modern America
especially the US?

So maybe we should be thinking that Native American's Q3 came from Central
Asia to the Americas via Siberia and Greenland?


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