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|  New Message Posted!2011-10-23 23:31
Participants in the 1000 Genomes project reconstruct the genetic variation of a lost group of Native Americans.
TainoThe Taínos were the first Native Americans to encounter European explorers, but this ethnic group is now extinct.Peter Newark American Pictures / The Bridgeman Art Library
The Taínos were the first Native Americans to meet European explorers in the Caribbean. They soon fell victim to the diseases and violence brought by the outsiders, and today no Taínos remain.
But the footprints of this extinct ethnicity are scattered throughout the genomes of modern Puerto Ricans, according to geneticist Carlos Bustamante at the Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California. On average, the genomes of Puerto Ricans contain 10 to 15% Native American DNA, which is largely Taíno,
says Bustamante.
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111014/full/news.2011.592.html
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