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Some subclades of C and D closer to the Indigenous American subclades occur among Mongolian, Amur, Japanese, Korean, and Ainu populations.
Six came from the mountainous Altai region near/in Mongolia, dating to between 5500 and 7500 years ago. Five of these so-called Altai hunter-gatherers belonged to a population that apparently gave rise to several later peoples who spread throughout the Central Asian steppe during the Bronze Age.
According to the Meyers Konversations-Lexikon (1885–90), peoples included in the Mongoloid race are North Mongol, Chinese and Indochinese, Japanese and Korean, Tibetan and Burmese, Malay, Polynesian, Maori, Micronesian, Eskimo, and Native American.
Yes, Mongolians and Native Americans are related. Genetic studies have shown that both populations have common ancestry and share genetic similarities. What ethnicity is closest to Native American? Genetically, Native Americans are most closely related to East Asian people.
Mongolian Americans are American citizens who are of full or partial Mongolian ancestry. The term Mongol American is also used to include ethnic Mongol immigrants from groups outside of Mongolia as well, such as Kalmyks, Buryats, and people from the Inner Mongolia autonomous region of China. [8]
But instead of converging on a single consensus picture, the studies, published online in Science and Nature, throw up a new mystery: Both detect in modern Native Americans a trace of DNA related to that of native people from Australia and Melanesia.
These conclusions have been based on cultural, morphological and genetic similarities between American and Asian populations. Both Siberia and Mongolia [2,3] have been put forward as the most likely places of origin in Asia.
DNA gleaned from a roughly 14,000-year-old fragment of a human tooth suggests that people inhabiting a surprisingly large swath of Asia were the ancestors of the first Americans.
In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, Anthony Trujillo discusses how his experience living and working as a Native American in Mongolia helped to fortify his identity.
Consistent with our PCA and a previous report 1, the largest ancestral component in the Mongolian genomes matches that of East Asians (Fig. 2c), followed by European and Native American...