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From: "Ray Vick" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] mtDNA of H in Native American
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:47:09 -0700
In-Reply-To: <4603DDBB.1090004@scs.uiuc.edu>


I note that just looking at McDonald's YDNA map, strictly from a YDNA
perspecitve i.e. excluding archeological data, it looks no more likely that
Q3 crossed from Central Asia into North America via Alaska than from the
other direction. He shows the Selkups as the modern group with the only
significant amount of Q.

Here I am not talking about my personal interest in European Q e.g. our VICK
Q*. I am just searching for more info on Am Ind origins; but I will almost
certainly never know the specifics of my 1/16 Am Ind.

-----Original Message-----
From:
[mailto:]On Behalf Of Doug McDonald
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 7:02 AM
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Subject: Re: [DNA] mtDNA of H in Native American


Ray Vick wrote:
> 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 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?

It's unlikely that the Q3s came via Greenland. There are also
plain Qs (not Q3) in America, and Q is a circumpolar (north pole)
group, so in theory Q could have come from Greenland. OF course,
the Q in Norway might (but probably didn't) come there from America
via Greenland.

Doug McDonald



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