| “From Paleo-Indian times to recent historical episodes, the Mesoamerican isthmus played an important role in the distribution and patterns of variability all around the double American continent. However, the amount of genetic information currently available on Central American continental populations is very scarce. In order to shed light on the role of Mesoamerica in the peopling of the New World, the present study focuses on the analysis of the mtDNA variation in a population sample from El Salvador.” Identifies small amounts of haplogroup X2A in Mesoamerica, a haplogroup native to the Middle East. | |
| Salas A, Lovo-Gómez J, Alvarez-Iglesias V, Cerezo M, Lareu MV, Macaulay V, Richards MB, Carracedo A. | |
| 2009 | |
| Salas A, Lovo-Gómez J, Alvarez-Iglesias V, Cerezo M, Lareu MV, Macaulay V, Richards MB, Carracedo A. Mitochondrial echoes of first settlement and genetic continuity in El Salvador. PLoS One. 2009 Sep 2;4(9):e6882. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006882. PMID: 19724647; PMCID: PMC2731219. |
