mtDNA diversity in Chukchi and Siberian Eskimos: implications for the genetic history of ancient Beringia and the people of the New World

Implications for the genetic history of ancient Beringia and for the people of the New World as found in mtDNA diversity in Chukchi and Siberian Eskimos are discussed. Beringia over millennia was perhaps the location of the respective founding sequences that selectively came into northern North America via western Alaska.