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Wired: Indian DNA Links to 6 ‘Founding Mothers’

Article link.By MALCOLM RITTER
AP Science Writer
 
NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly all of today’s Native Americans in North, Central and South America can trace part of their ancestry to six women whose descendants immigrated around 20,000 years ago, a DNA study suggests.

Those women left a particular DNA legacy that persists to today in about about 95 percent of Native Americans, researchers said…

Just one more day guys! Stay tuned for blog updates tonight.

- Bryan

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One Response to “Wired: Indian DNA Links to 6 ‘Founding Mothers’”

  1. France Says:
    March 13th, 2008 at 6:23 pm

    Thanks Bryan, for all the great updates that you’ve made to the BMUN UNESCO blog! (: It was difficult to keep up with your frequent updates, but these posts helped us immensely during our preparation. About today’s article, France understands the difficulties that many indigenous minorities may face due to new genetic research regarding their genealogy. France believes in maintaining a balance between scientific advancement and the well-being of the addressed population. Informative consent is one of the answers to creating this equilibrium, and France hopes to see this being implemented at all levels within the international community.

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