Uniparental origins of the admixed Argentine Patagonia.
Camila TamburriniMichelle de Saint PierreClaudio Marcelo BraviGraciela BaillietLaura Jurado MedinaIrina Florencia VelázquezLuciano Esteban RealAlfredo HolleyClaudia Marcela TedeschiNéstor Guillermo BassoMaría Laura ParolinPublished in: American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council (2021)
The results suggest that Native American ancestry is well preserved in the region. Trelew samples had characteristic native mtDNA haplogroups previously described in Chilean and Argentine Patagonian populations, but not observed in ancient samples until now. These findings support the idea that these lineages have a recent regional origin. Finally, the estimated proportions of continental ancestry depend on the genetic marker analyzed.