TGOFA

Tracking the Genetic Origins of the First Americans

Coordinatore	KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET    more  Organization address postcode: 1017 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Ivan Cognome: Kristoffersen Email: send email Telefono: +45 35322810 Fax: +45 35324220
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Denmark [DK]
Totale costo	208˙629 €
EC contributo	208˙629 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IEF
Funding Scheme	MC-IEF
Anno di inizio	2010
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2010-03-01   -   2012-02-29

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET	DK	coordinator	208˙629.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Ancient DNA techniques will be applied to over 150 human remains from the US and Mexico corresponding to paleoamerican and amerindian populations in order to address the origin and diversification of the first inhabitants of the Americas. Second generation DNA sequencing technologies will be used to yield large amounts of genetic data of Amerindians from across Mexico and the Southwest United States. This will include the well known and controversial extinct Pericu population from the Baja California Peninsula and the Clovis site of Anzick, Montana. Complete mitochondrial genomes and nuclear SNPs will be used to compare the genetics of the presumably isolated Pericu population with contemporaneous Amerindians. In addition the genetic data of these populations will also be compared to those of the first paleoamericans (Clovis). Initially all samples will be screened using conventional PCR and amplicon sequencing on the Roche FLX platform for short fragments within the mitochondrial hypervariable region. These fragments, predominantly spanning HVS1, will be used to both assign a preliminary haplotype to each sample, and identify samples of particular interest (based on which haplogroups they fall into). Subsequently, the dataset will be partitioned into two groups. Those samples of particular interest will have the complete mitochondrial DNA genome sequenced using novel targeted-capture based sequencing. This is the first large scale genetic study to address this subject and the data obtained will be used to test different hypotheses about the colonization of America, such as the origin of the Clovis, possible population replacement events and therefore about who were the direct ancestors of the first Amerinidians.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

DNA analysis has contributed new information on the origins of the first people of the New World.