Are Amerindians (indigenous peoples of the Americas) related genetically to Altaic, Siberian, Mongols of Asia?

Question

I understand that the Amerindians migrated from the Asia through the Bering Strait in the last ice age, into the Americas but does that necessitate that they are ethnically/genetically related to the nomadic peoples of Siberia (Altaic, Kamchatka, Mongol)?

Answer 1

no. they're the NATIVE AMERICANS. The British people conquered america and took over leaving the americans the white the sons of UK.

Answer 2

The new theory is "some are" the nomads from Northern Russia are closely related to the Attu tribe of Eskimo, for some reason they migrated to the Greenland Eskimo and these areas instead of South.

       Some come from the Japanese Northern Islands when they were once part of the mainland. Some from the Kamchatka Penn. now, it's also though and, in fact proven, that boats were used by some to migrate along the coast. The tribes now vanished along the very rough Aleutian coastal areas were once a home to these people.

         We have to give credit to the Vikings, the Norsemen from the early 800 to a later 1100 along the Labrador and Northeastern American coastal waters and, the St, Lawrence sea way to the Great lakes.

         The Florida area was once inhabited be a now extinct race from, we don't know where.

        The South America, from the South Pacific Islands,  also thought from Japan and the Asian Penn. Indonesia

Answer 3

Yes, mitochondrial DNA shows they are related to Asians.

Also, they are related to Europeans too, as a Mt DNA type,'X', which can only be of ancient South Western European or Berber origin, is seen to be very common in East coast Amerindians, pre-European conquest(Solutreans). It's thought to pre-date the Asian colonization, and they are thought to have made their way across the edge of the Atlantic pack ice in the Last ice age, hunting a lot like the Inuit do. So they are part European too.

There is evidence that at least two other racial groups the Ainu and Australoids, made it to America before the Asians. Bones have been found to support this. So your average Amerindian is a mix of several ethnic ancestors.

Answer 4

Yes, & in addition they have Haplogroup X which is found in Western Europe, but not in East Asia. We know of 3 possible migrations to the US over the past 20,000 years. Genetic tests on Native Americans in the Eastern US & Eastern Brazil have indicated haplogroup X, as found in the Americas, diverged from the haplogroup X found in Western Europe about 20,000 yrs ago. Do a google on "Native American Haplogroup X" for more details on this.

Answer 5

The DNA results show the people of Siberia and the America's are related.

"Evidence for diverse migrations into the New World also comes from Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) research on living American Indian populations. These studies have consistently shown similarities between American Indians and recent populations in Asia and Siberia"

http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/nmnh/o...

Another site suggest contributions from elsewhere: "approximately 97% of Native American mtDNAs belong to one of four major founding mtDNA lineages, designated haplogroups "A"-"D." It has been proposed that a fifth mtDNA haplogroup (haplogroup X) represents a minor founding lineage in Native Americans...Time estimates for the arrival of X in North America are 12,000-36,000 years ago, "

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/article...

In short it's pretty clear the majority of humans entering the Americas came across the Bering Land Bridge. There appears evidence that suggests possible immigration from Europe and Polynesia.

As for direct relation to current peoples, we didn't find any evidence. Human groups tend to move and expecting a group to stay intact, in the same location for thousands of years is remote.

There was recently a case where DNA from a prehistoric man was linked to his living descendant.. see:

http://u5a1a.blogspot.com/2007/12/my-fam...

Answer 6

First, it is not yet sure all Indians of America are of the same race. Second, greatest part of them belong to what is commonly called the Yellow race, like a good deal of the inhabitants of China for instance.