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Genetic roots of the first Americans

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The whole-genome sequence of a human associated with the earliest widespread culture in North America confirms the Asian ancestry of the Clovis people and their relatedness to present-day Native Americans. See Letter p.225

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  1. Jennifer A. Raff and Deborah A. Bolnick are in the Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1723, USA.,

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Raff, J., Bolnick, D. Genetic roots of the first Americans. Nature 506, 162–163 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/506162a

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