Mitochondrial diversity of <scp>I</scp>ñupiat people from the <scp>A</scp>laskan <scp>N</scp>orth <scp>S</scp>lope provides evidence for the origins of the Paleo‐ and Neo‐<scp>E</scp>skimo peoples

Abstract

Our results yield insight into the maternal population history of the Alaskan North Slope and support the hypothesis that this region served as an ancestral pool for eastward movements to Canada and Greenland, for both the Paleo-Eskimo and Neo-Eskimo populations.