Does DNA Testing prove that Native Americans came from Asia?

Question

I havn't been able to find information to this effect, but some people claim this or that concerning the origin of Native Americans. Some say they came via the Barring Straight near Alaska while others claim they came by boat (E.g. Teeke I,II,III). Any EVIDENCE?

Answer 1

I sooooooo wish I could find the article, because I have wanted to re-read it myself...But I read recently that DNA testing showed that Native Americans are not closely related to Asians that would have had access through the Bering Straight, but are closely related to Pacific Islanders.

Grrr...I'll look again for the article, but it seems to have shown up one day and disappeared the next!

Answer 2

Yes PBS did a story about the founder of the National Geographic Magazine's Genographic Project's founder going to Asia and getting DNA tests and pictures. Then he showed the pictures of the haplogroup's descendants to Native Americans who tested as Asian descendants. It was very convincing proof for the Asian descent of Amerindians.

Answer 3

I wonder too...can DNA track down your ancestors?

Answer 4

A number of years ago, there was a study done on the Havasupai tribe in the Grand Canyon.  Blood samples were taken with the permission of the tribe, as to find out why there's such an epidemic of diabetes among the tribe.

A rogue scientist took the blood, and without the tribe's permission, studied the DNA of the tribe for purposes other than Diabetes research and claimed that it found the general area in Asia where the tribe originated, based on similar type of DNA.  This caused a huge uproar, since the Havasupai consider the Grand Canyon, and the specific area where they're from, to be the center of the universe, and where they decended from.

Now, having said that, the Beiring Strait theory was a long time ago, and Native Americans over thousands of years have built up in a way, their own sort of genetic makeup, independent of anyone else.  However, the original building blocks are there to see if you study them, which seem to point that many of them originally came from somewhere in Asia.

Answer 5

Based on DNA testing of American Indians and comparison with DNA sampling from other parts of the world, it is thought that groups from Asia were the first people to inhabit North, South and Central America, but there is still a lot more research, i.e. a lot more people need to be tested, before

it can be established with any certainty.

And of course, as with all of us, the forebears of those people would have originated in Africa.

YA, Dna can be used very successfully to tell you where your

ancestors from way back originated, and usually also some of the areas they lived in along the way. We are talking in thousands of years here.

An interesting article (not dna) about who the first inhabitants of the Americas may have been is at  :-

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

Answer 6

The native americans are American But settlers thought they were indian because they thought they were in Asia!

Answer 7

No DNA testing DOES NOT prove we came from Asia.

We didn't come from anywhere, we were created on THIS continent, we have always been here and will always be here.  Our histories go back over 30,000 years on THIS continent and now some scientists say it could be as long as 50,000 years.  That is long before any ice/land bridge from Asia.  That is just a theory anyway and one that has so many holes in it, it looks like Swiss cheese.  And it's getting more holes in it everyday.

If you go back far enough we all have some DNA marker in common.  After all we all come from Mother Earth.....

Answer 8

From what I've read, the majority of Native Americans migrated from Asia eons ago; not in one mass migration, but in groups over thousands of years.  DNA testing has even identified various groups in central and north Asia that share common ancestry with American Indians.

Check out the National Geographic Genographic Project:

https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/geno...

Click on the tab for the "Atlas of the Human Journey."