VERISA: Genetic testing conducted on the Iñupiat people of Alaska’s North Slope could reveal the migration patterns of people who have lived in the North American Arctic over the past 5,000 years.
The recent study found all mitochondrial DNA haplogroups that have been found in the ancient remains of Neo- and Paleo-Eskimos and living Inuit individuals from North America were present in the people living in North Slope villages,” Northwestern University reported.
“This is the first evidence that genetically ties all of the Iñupiat and Inuit populations from Alaska, Canada and Greenland back to the Alaskan North Slope,” said Northwestern’s M. Geoffrey Hayes, senior author of the new study to be published April 29, 2015, in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
The new findings support the archaeological model that determines people arrived in the North Slip in an eastward migration from Alaska to Greenland. It also supports the hypothesis that two major migrations occurred from the North Slope to the east.
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