Re: Origin and Diffusion of mtDNA Haplogroup X

On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 17:39:42 +0000, Doug Weller
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>http://www.dienekes.com/blog/archives/000402.htmlOrigin and Diffusion of
>mtDNA Haplogroup X
>
>Am. J. Hum. Genet., 73:000, 2003
>
>Maere Reidla et al.
>
>I think the article is still in copyright so I won't reproduce it here -
>it suggests that Haplogroup X in Native Americans comes from the Near
>East.

All of the sequences which begin with the letter 'H' in Figure 1 were
from Herrnstadt et al's study in which, we were only told, were
derived from Europeans or Americans.   I can not think of a worse
haplogroup to be uncertain about the geographic sources of the
samples.  

It should also be mentioned that Reidla et al.  believe the Altaians
only acquired haplogroup X within the last 6,700 years.

Gisele