Investigating the origins of eastern Polynesians using genome-wide data from the Leeward Society Isles

Abstract The debate concerning the origin of the Polynesian speaking peoples has been recently reinvigorated by genetic evidence for secondary migrations to western Polynesia from the New Guinea region during the 2nd millennium BP. Using genome-wide autosomal data from the Leeward Society Islands, t...

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Main Authors: Georgi Hudjashov, Phillip Endicott, Helen Post, Nano Nagle, Simon Y. W. Ho, Daniel J. Lawson, Maere Reidla, Monika Karmin, Siiri Rootsi, Ene Metspalu, Lauri Saag, Richard Villems, Murray P. Cox, R. John Mitchell, Ralph L. Garcia-Bertrand, Mait Metspalu, Rene J. Herrera
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018-01-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-20026-8