Immunoglobulin (GM and KM) allotypes and relation to population history in native peoples of British Columbia

Haida and Bella Coola

Bibliographic Data

ID8315889
AuthorsL Leigh Field (University of Calgary), J P Gofton (University of British Columbia), T D Kinsella, Thomas Kinsella (University of Calgary)
Year1988
Volume76
Issue2
Pages155-163
Publication date1988-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Physical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-9483 • E-ISSN: 1096-8644
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/ajpa.1330760203
PMID3414788
OpenAlexW2138013079
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited14

Differences in the frequencies of GM haplotypes among native peoples of the Americas support the hypothesis that there were three distinct waves of migration from northeast Asia into the Americas: Paleo‐Indian, Na‐Dene, and Inuit (Eskimo)‐Aleut (Salzano and Steinberg: Am. J. Hum. Genet. 17 :273–279, 1965; Sukernik and Osipova: Hum. Genet. 61 :148–153, 1982; Williams et al.: Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 66 :1–19, 1985; Szathmary: In R Kirk and E Szathmary (eds): Out of Asia: Peopling of the Americas and the Pacific . Canberra: The Journal of Pacific History , Canberra Australian National University, pp. 79–104, 1985). We studied GM allotypes in two linguistically unique populations of Canadian west coast native peoples, the Haida and the Bella Coola, and compared them to GM frequencies in populations that are supposed descendants of the three migrations, in order to investigate the possible genetic relationships of these British Columbia (BC) groups to other native populations. We also estimated the amount of European admixture from the frequency of the Caucasian haplotype, Gm 3;5 . Results showed that the frequencies in both BC populations of the three common native haplotypes ( Gm 1,17;21 , Gm 1,2,17;21 , and Gm 1,17;15,16 ), were intermediate between the frequencies in supposed descendants of Paleo‐Indian and Na‐Dene. These genetic findings are consistent with the controversial hypothesis of archeologist C. Borden ( Science 203 :963–971, 1979) that, following deglaciation about 13,000 years ago, British Columbia was repopulated by peoples from the north (?Na‐Dene) and by culturally distinct peoples from the south (?Paleo‐Indian). Caucasian admixture estimates suggested that the Haida and Bella Coola have also experienced moderate amounts (12–20%) of genetic input from European‐originating peoples

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