References for "Genetics and the History of Latin America" Hispanic American Historical Review (May 2005)
South America || Central America || The Caribbean || Mexico
The American Southwest || DNA work conducted on pre-contact peoples of the Americas
South America 1
  • Torroni et al., "Asian Affinities and Continental Radiation of the Four Founding Native American mtDNAs" American Journal of Human Genetics 53:3 (1993), 563-590
  • Baillet, et al., "Founder Mitochondrial Haplotypes in Amerindian Populations" American Journal of Human Genetics 54 (1994), 27-33
  • Ward et al., "Mitochondrial DNA Polymorphism in Three Brazilian Indian Tribes" American Journal of Human Biology 8 (1996), 317-323
  • Batista Dos Santos, et al., "Differential Contribution of Indigenous Men and Women to the Formation of an Urban Population in the Amazon Region as Revealed by mtDNA and Y-Chromosome DNA" American Journal of Physical Anthropology 109 (1999), 175-180
  • Rickards O., et al., "mtDNA History of the Cayapa Amerinds of Ecuador: Detection of Additional Founding Lineages for the Native American Populations" American Journal of Human Genetics 65 (1999), 519-530
  • Rodriguez-Delfin L.A., et al., "Genetic Diversity in an Andean Population from Peru and Regional Migration Patterns of Amerindians in South America: Data from Y Chromosome and Mitochondrial DNA" Human Heredity 51 (2000), 97-106
  • Alves-Silva, et al., "The Ancestry of Brazilian mtDNA Lineages" American Journal of Human Genetics 67 (2000), 444-461
  • Merriwether, et al., "Gene Flow and Genetic Variation in the Yanomama as Revealed by Mitochondrial DNA" in Colin Renfrew ed., America Past, America Present: Genes and Languages in the Americas and Beyond (Cambridge, England: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2000)
  • Mesa, et al., "Autosomal, mtDNA, and Y-Chromosome Diversity in Amerinds: Pre- and Post-Columbian Patterns of Gene Flow in South America" American Journal of Human Genetics 67 (2000), 1277-1286
  • Moraga et al., "Mitochondrial DNA Polymorphisms in Chilean Aboriginal Populations: Implications for the Peopling of the Southern Cone of the Continent" American Journal of Physical Anthropology 113 (2000), 19-29
  • Demarchi, et al., "Absence of the 9-bp Deletion of Mitochondrial DNA in Pre-Hispanic Inhabitants of Argentina" Human Biology 73 (2001), 575-582
  • Goicoechea, et al., "Genetic Relationship Between Amerindian Populations of Argentina" American Journal of Physical Anthropology 115 (2001), 1333-1343
  • Fagundes, et al., "Genetic, Geographic, and Linguistic Variation among South American Indians: Possible Sex Influence" American Journal of Physical Anthropology 117 (2002), 68-78
  • Keyeux, et al., "Possible Migration Routes into South America Deduced from Mitochondrial DNA Studies in Colombian Amerindian Populations" Human Biology 74 (2002), 211-233
  • Moral, et al., "Genetic Variability in the Guahibo Population from Venezuela" American Journal of Human Biology 14 (2002), 21-28
  • Salzano F.N., "Molecular Variability in Amerindians: Widespread but Uneven Information [review]" Anais Da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 74 (2002), 223-263; Fuselli S., et al., "Mitochondrial DNA Diversity in South America and the Genetic History of Andean Highlanders" Molecular Biology & Evolution 20 (2003), 1682-1691.
Central America2
  • Barrantes, et al., "Microevolution in Lower Central America: Genetic Characterization of the Chibcha-Speaking Groups of Costa Rica and Panama, and a Consensus Taxonomy Based on Genetic and Linguistic Affinity" American Journal of Human Genetics 46:1 (1990), 63-84
  • Torroni, et al., "Asian Affinities and Continental Radiation of the Four Founding Native American mtDNAs" American Journal of Human Genetics 53:3 (1993), 563-590
  • Torroni, et al., "Mitochondrial DNA 'Clock' for the Amerinds and Its Implications for Timing Their Entry into North America" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 91:3 (1994), 1158-1162
  • Santos, et al., "mtDNA Variation in the Chibcha Amerindian Huetar from Costa Rica" Human Biology 66:6 (1994), 963-977
  • Batista, et al., "Mitochondrial DNA Diversity in the Kuna Amerinds of Panama" Human Molecular Genetics 4:5 (1995), 921-929
  • Kolman et al., "Reduced mtDNA Diversity in the Ngobe Amerinds of Panama" Genetics 140 (1995), 275-283
  • Kolman and Bermingham, "Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNA Diversity in the Choco and Chibcha Amerinds of Panama" Genetics 147:3 (1997), 1289-1302
  • Merriwether, et al., "mtDNA Variation in Ancient and Contemporary Mayans" in Stephen L. Whittington and David M. Reed eds., Bones of the Ancestors: Recent Studies of Ancient Maya Skeletons (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997).
The Caribbean3
  • Martínez-Cruzado et al., "Mitochondrial DNA Analysis in Puerto Rico" Human Biology 73 (2001), 491-511
  • Lalueza-Fox C. et al., "mtDNA from Extinct Tainos and the Peopling of the Caribbean" Annals of Human Genetics 65 (2001), 137-151
  • Gladys Toro-Labrador et al., "Mitochondrial DNA Analysis in Aruba: Strong Maternal Ancestry of Closely Related Amerindians and Implications for the Peopling of Northwestern Venezuela" Caribbean Journal of Science 38:1 (2003), 11-22
  • Lalueza-Fox C. et al., "Mitochondrial DNA from Pre-Columbian Ciboneys from Cuba and the Prehistoric Colonization of the Caribbean" American Journal of Physical Anthopology 121 (2003), 97-108.
Mexico4
  • Schurr, et al., "Amerindian Mitochondrial DNAs Have Rare Asian Mutations at High Frequencies, Suggesting They Derived from Four Primary Maternal Lineages" American Journal of Human Genetics 46:3 (1990), 613-623
  • Torroni et al., "Native American Mitochondrial DNA Analysis Indicates that the Amerind and the Nadene Populations Were Founded by Two Independent Migrations" Genetics 130:1 (1992), 153-162
  • Torroni, Chen et al., "mtDNA and Y-Chromosome Polymorphisms in Four Native American Populations from Southern Mexico" American Journal of Human Genetics 54:2 (1994), 303-318
  • Lorenz and Smith, "Distribution of Four Founding mtDNA Haplogroups among Native North Americans" American Journal of Physical Anthropology 101:3 (1996), 307-323
  • Infante et al., "Molecular Analysis of HLA Class I Alleles in Mexican Seri Indians: Implications for Their Origin" Tissue Antigens 54 (1999), 35-42
  • Green et al., "mtDNA Affinities of the Peoples of North-Central Mexico" American Journal of Human Genetics 66:3 (2000), 989-998
  • Smith et al., "Implications of the Distribution of Albumin Naskapi and Albumin Mexico for New World Prehistory" American Journal of Physical Anthropology 111:4 (2000), 557-572
  • Rangel-Villalobos H, et al., "Genetic Variation among Four Mexican Populations (Huichol, Purépecha, Tarahumara, and mestizo) Revealed by Two VNTRs and Four STRs" Human Biology 72 (2000), 983-995
  • Villalobos-Arambula AR, et al., "Beta(a) Globin Gene Haplotypes in Mexican Huichols: Genetic Relatedness to Other Populations" American Journal of Human Biology 12 (2000), 201-206
  • González Oliver et al., "Founding Amerindian Mitochondrial DNA Lineages in Ancient Maya from Xcaret, Quintana Roo" American Journal of Physical Anthropology 116:3 (2001), 230-235
  • Malhi, Eshleman, et al., "The Structure of Diversity within New World Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroups: Implications for the Prehistory of North America" American Journal of Human Genetics 70:4 (2002), 905-919
  • Malhi, Mortenson, et al., "Native American mtDNA Prehistory in the American Southwest" American Journal of Physical Anthropology 120:2 (2003), 108-124
  • Buentello-Malo L., et al., "Genetic Structure of Seven Mexican Indigenous Populations Based on Five Polymarker Loci" American Journal of Human Biology 15 (2003), 23-28
  • Zegura S. L., et al., "High-Resolution SNPs and Microsatellite Haplotypes Point to a Single, Recent Entry of Native American Y Chromosomes into the Americas" Molecular Biology & Evolution 21 (2004), 164-175
  • Collins-Schramm H.E., et al., "Mexican American Ancestry-Informative Markers: Examination of Population Structure and Marker Characteristics in European Americans, Mexican Americans, Amerindians, and Asians" Human Genetics 114 (2004), 263-271.
The American Southwest5
  • Lorenz and Smith, "Distribution of Four Founding mtDNA Haplogroups among Native North Americans" American Journal of Physical Anthropology 101:3 (1996), 307-323
  • Parr, et al., "Ancient DNA Analysis of Fremont Amerindians of the Great Salt Lake Wetlands" American Journal of Physical Anthropology 99:4 (1996), 507-518
  • Smith et al., "Implications of the Distribution of Albumin Naskapi and Albumin Mexico for New World Prehistory" American Journal of Physical Anthropology 111:4 (2000), 557-572
  • Carlyle et al., "Context of Maternal Lineages in the Greater Southwest" American Journal of Physical Anthropology 113:1 (2000), 85-101
  • Kaestle and Smith, "Ancient Mitochondrial DNA Evidence for Prehistoric Population Movement: The Numic Expansion" American Journal of Physical Anthropology 115:1 (2001), 1-12
  • Malhi, Mortenson, et al., "Native American mtDNA Prehistory in the American Southwest" American Journal of Physical Anthropology 120:2 (2003), 108-124.
DNA work conducted on pre-contact peoples of the Americas6
  • Rogan P.K. and Salvo J.J., "Molecular Genetics or Pre-Columbian South American Mummies" Molecular Evolution 122 (1990), 223-234
  • Stone A.C., et al., "Ancient DNA from a Pre-Columbian Amerinidan Population" American Journal of Physical Anthropology 92 (1993), 463-71
  • Parr RL, et al., "Ancient DNA Analysis of Fremont Amerindians of the Great Salt Lake Wetlands" American Journal of Physical Anthropology 99 (1996), 507-518
  • Lalueza-Fox C., "Analysis of Ancient Mitochondrial DNA from Extinct Aborigines from Tierra Del Fuego-Patagonia" Ancient Biomolecules 1 (1996), 43-54
  • Monsalve M.V., et al., "Phylogenetic Analysis of mtDNA Lineages in South American Mummies" Annals of Human Genetics 60 (1996), 293-303
  • Stone A.C. and Stoneking M., "Genetic Analysis of an 8000 Year-Old Native American Skeleton" Ancient Biomolecules 1 (1996), 83-87
  • Lalueza C. et al., "Lack of Founding Amerindian Mitochondrial DNA Lineages in Extinct Aborigines from Tierra Del Fuego-Patagonia" Human Molecular Genetics 6 (1997), 41-46
  • Stone A.C. and Stoneking M. "mtDNA Analysis of a Prehistoric Oneota Population: Implications for the Peopling of the New World" American Journal of Human Genetics 62 (1998), 1153-1170
  • Stone A.C. and Stoneking M., "Analysis of Ancient DNA from a Prehistoric Amerindian Cemetery" Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B Biological Sciences 354 (1999), 153-159
  • González-Oliver A., et al., "Founding Amerindian Mitochondrial DNA Lineages in Ancient Maya from Xcaret, Quintana Roo" American Journal of Physical Anthropology 116 (2001), 230-235
  • Moraga M. et al., "mtDNA Analysis of Mummies from Northern Chile Endorse the Hypothesis of an Amazonian Origin of Andean Populations" Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 74 (2001), 719-726
  • and Lalueza-Fox C., et al., "Mitochondrial DNA from Pre-Columbian Ciboneys from Cuba and the Prehistoric Colonization of the Caribbean" American Journal of Physical Anthropology 121 (2003), 97-108.

Updated: 04/25/2005