mtDNA Analysis of a Prehistoric Oneota Population: Implications for the Peopling of the New World

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1987 • 59,130 citations

MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0

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Analysis of molecular variance inferred from metric distances among DNA haplotypes: application to human mitochondrial DNA restriction data.

1992 • 13,850 citations

Statistical method for testing the neutral mutation hypothesis by DNA polymorphism.

1989 • 13,216 citations

Estimation of the number of nucleotide substitutions in the control region of mitochondrial DNA in humans and chimpanzees.

1993 • 10,775 citations

Sequence and organization of the human mitochondrial genome

1981 • 9,348 citations

Rapid and simple method for purification of nucleic acids

1990 • 5,273 citations

Population growth makes waves in the distribution of pairwise genetic differences.

1992 • 4,603 citations

Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution

1987 • 2,967 citations

Quartet Puzzling: A Quartet Maximum-Likelihood Method for Reconstructing Tree Topologies

1996 • 2,613 citations

Pairwise comparisons of mitochondrial DNA sequences in stable and exponentially growing populations.

1991 • 2,351 citations

Neandertal DNA Sequences and the Origin of Modern Humans

1997 • 1,296 citations

Mitochondrial portraits of human populations using median networks.

1995 • 1,082 citations

GENETIC EVIDENCE FOR A PLEISTOCENE POPULATION EXPLOSION

1995 • 1,016 citations

Ancient DNA: extraction, characterization, molecular cloning, and enzymatic amplification.

1989 • 991 citations

Prevention of pre-PCR mis-priming and primer dimerization improves low-copy-number amplifications

1992 • 756 citations

Origin and evolution of Native American mtDNA variation: a reappraisal.

1996 • 746 citations

Asian affinities and continental radiation of the four founding Native American mtDNAs.

1993 • 711 citations

The Genetic Structure of Ancient Human Populations

1993 • 673 citations

Recent African origin of modern humans revealed by complete sequences of hominoid mitochondrial DNAs.

1995 • 600 citations

Mitochondrial DNA sequences in single hairs from a southern African population.

1989 • 576 citations

Kin Selection, Social Structure, Gene Flow, and the Evolution of Chimpanzees

1994 • 564 citations

Native American mitochondrial DNA analysis indicates that the Amerind and the Nadene populations were founded by two independent migrations.

1992 • 508 citations

Mitochondrial DNA sequences from a 7000-year old brain

1988 • 492 citations

DNA extraction from Pleistocene bones by a silica-based purification method

1993 • 488 citations

The Settlement of the Americas: A Comparison of the Linguistic, Dental, and Genetic Evidence [and Comments and Reply]

1986 • 480 citations

Extensive mitochondrial diversity within a single Amerindian tribe.

1991 • 474 citations

Genetic Evidence for a Pleistocene Population Explosion

1995 • 450 citations

Paleolithic and Neolithic Lineages in the European Mitochondrial Gene Pool

1997 • 431 citations

The impact of population expansion and mutation rate heterogeneity on DNA sequence polymorphism

1996 • 429 citations

American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492

1990 • 409 citations

Branching pattern in the evolutionary tree for human mitochondrial DNA.

1991 • 402 citations

Language in the Americas

1989 • 402 citations

Length mutations in human mitochondrial DNA: direct sequencing of enzymatically amplified DNA

1987 • 381 citations

Amerindian mitochondrial DNAs have rare Asian mutations at high frequencies, suggesting they derived from four primary maternal lineages.

1990 • 378 citations

The Settlement of the Americas: A Comparison of the Linguistic, Dental, and Genetic Evidence

1986 • 371 citations

Southeast Asian mitochondrial DNA analysis reveals genetic continuity of ancient mongoloid migrations.

1992 • 361 citations

Mitochondrial DNA Analysis of Mongolian Populations and Implications for the Origin of New World Founders

1996 • 344 citations

The retrieval of ancient human DNA sequences.

1996 • 327 citations

Peopling of the Americas, founded by four major lineages of mitochondrial DNA.

1993 • 326 citations

Distribution of the four founding lineage haplotypes in native Americans suggests a single wave of migration for the New World

1995 • 316 citations

Substitution rate variation among sites in hypervariable region 1 of human mitochondrial DNA

1993 • 307 citations

Intraspecific nucleotide sequence differences in the major noncoding region of human mitochondrial DNA.

1990 • 300 citations

A single and early migration for the peopling of the Americas supported by mitochondrial DNA sequence data

1997 • 274 citations

DNA Fingerprinting: State of the Science

1993 • 260 citations

mtDNA polymorphism in East Asian Populations, with special reference to the peopling of Japan.

1996 • 247 citations

Isolation and characterization of DNA from archaeological bone

1991 • 244 citations

Evolutionary history of the COII/tRNALys intergenic 9 base pair deletion in human mitochondrial DNAs from the Pacific.

1995 • 242 citations

Length heteroplasmy in the first hypervariable segment of the human mtDNA control region.

1995 • 239 citations

American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492.

1988 • 237 citations

Founder mitochondrial haplotypes in Amerindian populations.

1994 • 222 citations

Mitochondrial DNA "clock" for the Amerinds and its implications for timing their entry into North America.

1994 • 207 citations

Dramatic founder effects in Amerindian mitochondrial DNAs

1985 • 204 citations

Genetic and linguistic differentiation in the Americas.

1993 • 203 citations

Toward a more accurate time scale for the human mitochondrial DNA tree

1993 • 203 citations

Mtdna Sequences Suggest a Recent Evolutionary Divergence for Beringian and Northern North American Populations

1993 • 201 citations

Ancient DNA from a pre‐Columbian Amerindian population

1993 • 193 citations

Mitochondrial DNA analysis in Tibet: Implications for the origin of the Tibetan population and its adaptation to high altitude

1994 • 193 citations

Mismatch distributions of mtDNA reveal recent human population expansions.

1994 • 172 citations

mtDNA and Y-chromosome polymorphisms in four Native American populations from southern Mexico.

1994 • 160 citations

Authenticating DNA Extracted From Ancient Skeletal Remains

1995 • 160 citations

mtDNA sequence diversity in Africa.

1996 • 148 citations

Genetic variation among the Mapuche Indians from the Patagonian region of Argentina: Mitochondrial DNA sequence variation and allele frequencies of several nuclear genes

1993 • 136 citations

mtDNA variation indicates Mongolia may have been the source for the founding population for the New World.

1996 • 133 citations

Polynesian mitochondrial DNAs reveal three deep maternal lineage clusters.

1994 • 128 citations

Reduced mtDNA diversity in the Ngöbé Amerinds of Panamá.

1995 • 125 citations

American Indian Prehistory as Written in the Mitochondrial DNA: A Review

2009 • 125 citations

The genetic relationship between the Finns and the Finnish Saami (Lapps): analysis of nuclear DNA and mtDNA.

1996 • 115 citations

mtDNA variation in the Yanomami: evidence for additional New World founding lineages.

1996 • 110 citations

Mitochondrial DNA diversity in the Kuna Amerinds of Panama

1995 • 106 citations

Sex determination of ancient human skeletons using DNA

1996 • 105 citations

mtDNA variation in the Chibcha Amerindian Huetar from Costa Rica.

1994 • 104 citations

Advances in the dental search for Native American origins.

1984 • 103 citations

Genetics of aboriginal north Americans

1993 • 102 citations

Ancient DNA analysis of Fremont Amerindians of the Great Salt Lake Wetlands

1996 • 101 citations

Mitochondrial DNA polymorphism in three Brazilian Indian tribes

1996 • 96 citations

Pattern matching of age‐at‐death distributions in paleodemographic analysis

1989 • 91 citations

Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroups in Four Tribes from Tierra del Fuego-Patagonia: Inferences about the Peopling of the Americas.

1996 • 89 citations

North American Indian population size, <scp>A.D.</scp> 1500 to 1985

1988 • 88 citations

DNA fingerprinting: State of the science

1994 • 70 citations

The Four Founding Lineage Hypothesis for the New World: A Critical Reevaluation

1996 • 68 citations

Inter- and intrapopulation studies of ancient humans

1994 • 64 citations

Patterns of demographic change in the Americas.

1992 • 25 citations