Zheng He – Voyage from China to North America and back again – The Genetic Legacy
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Report Relied Upon
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Summary of Report
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Link in Asia
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1
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Aleutians
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Gabriel Novick and Colleagues
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Alaskan natives –
“Close similarities between the Chinese and Native Americans suggests recent gene flow from Asia”
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China
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2
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Vancouver Island
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Professor Bryan Sykes (p. 282)
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“…the curious absence of this clan [INA] …suggests to me that we may be seeing the genetic echo of a second seabourne colonisation that took the coastal route up the coast of Asia and down the Pacific Coast of North America.”
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Asia
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3
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Vancouver Island – Salish people
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Mariana Fernandez Cobo and Colleagues
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[The Salish have now migrated/ been relocated to Montana. They were the original inhabitants of Vancouver Island]
“Both trees showed that all type JCV from N. and S. America are closely related phylogenetically to strains in present day Japan”.
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Japan
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4
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East California – Navajo and Zuni people
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Gabriel Novick and Colleagues
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“Close similarities between the Chinese and Native Americans suggests recent gene flow from Asia”
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5
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Arizona/ New Mexico – Navajo people
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Mariana Fernandez Cobo and Colleagues
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“…The Status of human polyoma virus JC among the Navajo in New Mexico…and among the Salish people in Montana…were mainly of a northeast Asian genotype found in Japan (type 2A).”
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Japan
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6
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SW USA
Mexico – Pima people
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Theodore G Schurr and Colleagues
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“…40.5% of the Pima individuals had Hinc II Morph 6 while 55% of the individuals had Hine II morph 2…these data confirm the Asian origin of Amerindian MtDNA’s…it was possible that the limited number of the MtDNA types observed was the product of a recent (perhaps with 1500 to 2000 years) founder effect”
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Asia
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7
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Central Mexico – Nahuas people
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C. Gorodezky and Colleagues
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“HLA Pattern is very close to the Japanese population”
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Japan
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8
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Pacific, Central America
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Felipe Vilchis and Colleagues
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“The Allelic distribution among the Mazatecs showed a genotype pattern that was very similar to that found amongst Asian peoples”
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Asia> |
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Antonio Torroni and Colleagues
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“The Presence of Group B deletion haplotypes in East Asian and Native American populations…raises the possibility that Group B could represent a [distinct] migration event”
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East Asia
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9
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Hawaii
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R. Yanagihara and Colleagues
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“Our findings support the Asian origins of the Western Pacific JCV strains and suggest three broad movements…and relatively recent movements carrying large type 7A (South China) strains…”
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South China
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10
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Marshalls
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11
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Marianas (Guam)
Chamorro people
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R. Yanagihara and Colleagues
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“Our findings support the Asian origins of the Western Pacific JCV strains and suggest three broad movements…and relatively recent movements carrying large type 7A (South China) strains…”
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Asia
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12
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Phillippines – Negrito
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Shinji Harihara and Colleagues
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“A 9-base pair (bp) deletion in the noncoding region 5 of the human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) seems to be a useful marker for Asian and Pacific Populations…The variant is found only in individuals of East Asian origin with most Polynesian individuals exhibiting the variant.”
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East Asia
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13
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Native American Indians
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Darling S.T.
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“It is possible that either or both species [Ancylostoma and Necator hookworms] were introduced to the Americas in pre-Columbian times from Asia, Indonesia or Polynesia…cold encountered on the Bering Straits route would have prevented the continuence of the infection, so that the migrants would arrive free from hookworm.”
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Asia
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14
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Native American Indians
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Biocca Ettore
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Ancylostoma Clylanicum [a species of hookworm] occurs only in the Far East and Americas (see also Darling above)
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Asia
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15
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Native American Indians of Mexico and Guatemala
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Nicolle Chaves
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The typhus of Mexico and Guatemala differed from Eurasian typhus but was the same as that of Oceania, Australia and East and North Asia.
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Asia, Oceania, Australia
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