A scientific study indicates that a Native American woman was taken to Iceland by the Vikings five centuries before Columbus set foot on American soil Five centuries before Christopher Columbus first set foot on American soil, an Amerindian woman brought to Iceland by Vikings came in contact with Europeans and Americans, according to a study that concludes that the pre-Columbian presence in the Old World also has a genetic basis.
The scientific study published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, English researchers have participated in the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), University of Iceland and the biopharmaceutical deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik.
Researchers have come to such a novel and important conclusion after analyzing the genetics of four Icelandic families, of which today comprise about eighty people.
in their genes, according to research, found a lineage of Amerindian origin, after rebuilding their genealogies to four ancestors near 1700.
More specifically, the lineage found, named C1e, is mitochondrial, which means it was introduced to the island by a woman.
So far, reports the CSIC in a note, it was known that genes of the inhabitants of Iceland came from Scandinavia, Scotland and Ireland, but there was no news of their origin could be further from the other side the ocean and long before Columbus reached the New World in 1492.
The idea that the Vikings, road warriors, arrived on the continent Americas centuries before Columbus, although it is true to colder lands, is not a novelty. Archaeological remains and ancient stories that testify.
is the case of Viking settlement discovered at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, Canada, or Icelandic medieval texts as the "Saga of the Greenlanders" and Erik the Red, both of the thirteenth century and which notes that as fearsome warriors began to reach American shores from the tenth century
"As the island was virtually isolated from the tenth century, tells the researcher Carles Lalueza-Fox-the most likely hypothesis is that these genes corresponded to an Amerindian woman who was taken from America by the Vikings around 1000. Curiously, he insists, this fact would have remained hidden because this woman was an anonymous character.
was four years ago when Iceland was discovered that four members of the families surveyed had a mitochondrial lineage C, absent from Europe but typical Native Americans and people of eastern Asia.
"It was thought at first he continues Lalueza-Fox, a researcher at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, a joint CSIC and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwhich Asian families were from recently established in Iceland. "
When we studied the family trees "found that the four families came from four ancestors located between 1710 and 1740 and the same region of Iceland, near the massive glacier Vatnajökull," he adds.
To determine the fraction of the genes of the Americas would have gone to Europe, researchers, highlights the CSIC, used a family-based data-collecting deCODE pedigrees of all Icelanders and 80% of all which have existed.
Information that is useful for studying complex genetic diseases, says the CSIC.
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