Genetic Research Confirms Whites
Are The True "Native Americans"

An article published in "American Journal of Human Genetics" (1998, vol. 63, pp. 1852-61 - 10 pages) proposes that a puzzling genetic marker--known in the literature as "haplogroup X", found in a few Native Americans as well as in European samples - - indicates an ancient link between Paleoindians and Europeans.

The authors theorize that haplogroup X originated in Central Eurasia 30,000 - 35,000 years ago in a single common population, which then spread both west into Europe (replacing the "native" Neandertal) and apparently northeast to North America. At roughly the same time, a proto-Mongoloid group was spreading from their aboriginal core area somewhere in temperate East Asia, replacing ancient Negritos, whose only remaining direct descendents would be the Andamans in the Indian Ocean.

The paper, "mtDNA Haplogroup X: An Ancient Link between Europe/Western Asia and North America?" has a core group of authors from Emory University (Michael D. Brown, Jon C. Allen, Seyed H. Hosseini, Theodore G. Schurr, and Douglas C. Wallace) as well as investigators affiliated with the Department of Genetics of the University of Rome (Antonio Torroni, Rosaria Scozzari, and Fulvio Cruciana), and with the Mathematics Seminar of the University of Hamburg (Hans-Jurgen Bandelt).

Their research presents a detailed analysis of genetic characteristics of Amerindian and European haplogroup X mtDNA samples. What they found was that the European and "Native American" DNAs are not the same--and this in itself rules out an affinity due to group misidentification -- but that they share "an ancient common ancestor". Thus, the team has concluded that haplogroup X represents a new "humanity founding group" of mtDNA.

Though the researchers have not yet been able to definitely identify this haplogroup X in any ancient DNA sample, this appears to be in part because ancient DNA is highly degraded, so it does not present sufficient information to definitely characterize it. Indeed, their research paper identifies several possible ancient DNA samples that could, if they were more complete, be categorized. Thus the search for additional ancient DNA samples could prove crucial.

A second important point is that their examination of modern DNA in contemporary "Native American" population samples has shown haplogroup X only in certain northern peoples - - Ojibwa, Sioux, Nuu-Chah-Nulth, Yakama--and in the Navajo, a tribe previously thought to be genetically related to the Apache and other Athapaskan-speaking populations of the Northwest.

Most important is that haplogroup X has not been identified in Asians - - either from Siberia or from any other part of Asia - - suggesting that the original settlers of North America came from the future European race - - before that race existed! More extensive surveys of Asian and European samples will be required to fully deduce the origins of haplogroup X as a major racial group "marker".