COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Molecular Perspectives on Aleut Origins

犹他大学的Pi O‘Rourke和堪萨斯大学的Pi’s Crawford and West之间拟议的合作是通过遗传学、考古学和文化人类学方法继续对阿留申种群进行跨学科研究。这项拟议的研究建立在阿留申人先前的一个项目的基础上，该项目研究了现代和古代人口中的mtDNA。该项目建议通过增加Y染色体多态的抽样和分析来扩展先前的研究。这项研究可能会带来更多关于史前和现代阿留申人与其他北美和西伯利亚人之间进化关系的本质的科学理解。此外，它还将对现代阿留申人的起源问题提供新的见解，特别是对美洲的潜在原始殖民。

The proposed collaboration between PI O'Rourke, University of Utah, and PI's Crawford and West, University of Kansas, is to continue interdisciplinary research on Aleut populations through genetics, archaeology, and cultural anthropological methods. The proposed research builds on a previous project in the Aleutians looking at mtDNA in both modern and ancient populations. This project proposes to expand on the previous research with increased sampling and analysis of Y-chromosome polymorphisms. The research will potentially bring greater scientific understanding of the nature of the evolutionary relationships between prehistoric and modern Aleuts and other North American and Siberian groups. In addition, it will provide new insights into the question of the origins of the modern Aleut population specifically and potentially the original colonization of the Americas.