A general introduction to the origins and history of Latin American populations is followed by
a systematic review of the data from molecular autosomal assessments of the …

Sequence mismatch analysis (MMA) and Bayesian skyline plots (BSP) are commonly used
to reconstruct historical demography. A survey of 173 research articles (2009–2014), which …

INTRODUCTION The consensus view on the peopling of the Americas is that ancestors of
modern Native Americans entered the Americas from Siberia via the Bering Land Bridge …

Many coalescent-based methods aiming to infer the demographic history of populations
assume a single, isolated and panmictic population (ie a Wright-Fisher model). While this …

It is now widely agreed that the Native American founders originated from a Beringian
source population∼ 15–18 thousand years ago (kya) and rapidly populated all of the New …

Genome-wide data, both from SNP arrays and from complete genome sequencing, are
becoming increasingly abundant and are now even available from extinct hominins. These …

It has been suggested that the higher susceptibility of Hispanics to metabolic disease is
related to their Native American heritage. A frequent cholesterol transporter ABCA1 (ATP …

The genetic and demographic impact of European contact with Native Americans has
remained unclear despite recent interest. Whereas archeological and historical records …

The field of molecular ecology has burgeoned into a large discipline spurred on by technical
innovations that facilitate the rapid acquisition of large amounts of genotypic data, by the …

East Asia encompasses a wide variety of environments, peoples, cultures and languages.
Although this review focuses on East Asia, no geographic region can be considered in …