Implications of the distribution of Albumin Naskapi and Albumin Mexico for new world prehistory

Bibliographic Data

ID5198548
AuthorsDavid Glenn Smith (0000-0001-7858-3785, University of California, Davis, corresponding author), Joseph Lorenz, Joseph G Lorenz (University of California, Davis), Becky K Rolfs (University of California, Davis), R L Bettinger (0000-0003-3739-9740, University of California, Davis), Brian Green (0000-0003-0948-9650, University of California, Davis), Jason Eshleman (University of California, Davis), Beth A Schultz (University of California, Davis), Beth Schultz (0000-0002-9947-3582), Ripan S Malhi (0000-0002-1484-0292, University of California, Davis), Ripan Malhi
Year2000
Volume111
Issue4
Pages557-572
Publication date2000-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Physical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-9483 • E-ISSN: 1096-8644
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/(sici)1096-8644(200004)111:4<557::aid-ajpa10>3.0.co;2-b
PMID10727973
OpenAlexW2110548146
LanguageEN
Citations received27
References cited51

The known distributions of two mutational variants of the albumin gene that are restricted to Mexico and/or North America, Albumin Mexico (AL*Mexico) and Albumin Naskapi (AL*Naskapi), were expanded by the electrophoretic analysis of sera collected from more than 3, 500 Native Americans representing several dozen tribal groups. With a few exceptions that could be due to recent, isolated cases of admixture, AL*Naskapi is limited to groups that speak Athapaskan and Algonquian, two widely distributed language families not thought to be related, and to several linguistically unrelated groups geographically proximate to its probable ancestral homeland. Similarly, AL*Mexico is limited to groups that speak Yuman or Uto-Aztecan, two language groups in the American Southwest and Baja California not thought to be closely related to each other, and to several linguistically unrelated groups throughout Mexico. The simultaneous consideration of genetic, historical, linguistic, and archaeological evidence suggests that AL*Naskapi probably originated on the northwestern coast of North America, perhaps in some group ancestral to both Athapaskans and Algonquians, and then spread by migration and admixture to contiguous unrelated, or distantly related, tribal groups. AL*Mexico probably originated in Mexico before 3,000 years BP then spread northward along the Tepiman corridor together with cultural influences to several unrelated groups that participated in the Hohokam culture.

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