Study of ancient Siberian DNA showa that Native Americans and Europeans share a common heritage

Recently I posted a discussion on preliminary findings of a study of the oldest known modern human DNA, from a ancient burial near Lake Baikal.

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The preliminary findings showed that there was relationship between native americn populations and west Eurasian, and no particular connection to east Asians

The full study has been published in nature, all 100+pages.
And Dr. Dziebel has posted some of the visuals on his blog

Upper Palaeolithic Siberian Genome Reveals Dual Ancestry of Native Americans

Maanasa Raghavan, Pontus Skoglund, Kelly E. Graf, Mait Metspalu, Anders Albrechtsen, Ida Moltke, Simon Rasmussen, Thomas W. Stafford Jr., Ludovic Orlando, Ene Metspalu, Monika Karmin, Kristiina Tambets, Siiri Rootsi, Reedik Magi, Paula F. Campos, Elena Balanovska, Oleg Balanovsky, Elza Khusnutdinova, Sergey Litvinov, Ludmila P. Osipova, Sardana A. Fedorova, Mikhail I. Voevoda, Michael DeGiorgio, Thomas Sicheritz-Ponten, Søren Brunak, Svetlana Demeshchenko, Toomas Kivisild, Richard Villems, Rasmus Nielsen, Mattias Jakobsson and Eske Willerslev.

Abstract

The origins of the First Americans remain contentious. Although Native Americans seem to be genetically most closely related to east Asians, there is no consensus with regard to which specific Old World populations they are closest to. Here we sequence the draft genome of an approximately 24,000-year-old individual (MA-1), from Mal’ta in south-central Siberia9, to an average depth of 1 x. To our knowledge this is the oldest anatomically modern human genome reported to date. The MA-1 mitochondrial genome belongs to haplogroup U, which has also been found at high frequency among Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic European hunter-gatherers, and the Y chromosome of MA-1 is basal to modern-day western Eurasians and near the root of most Native American lineages5. Similarly, we find autosomal evidence that MA-1 is basal to modern-day western Eurasians and genetically closely related to modern-day Native Americans, with no close affinity to east Asians. This suggests that populations related to contemporary western Eurasians had a more north-easterly distribution 24,000 years ago than commonly thought. Furthermore, we estimate that 14 to 38% of Native American ancestry may originate through gene flow from this ancient population. This is likely to have occurred after the divergence of Native American ancestors from east Asian ancestors, but before the diversification of Native American populations in the New World. Gene flow from the MA-1 lineage into Native American ancestors could explain why several crania from the First Americans have been reported as bearing morphological characteristics that do not resemble those of east Asians. Sequencing of another south-central Siberian, Afontova Gora-2 dating to approximately 17,000 years ago14, revealed similar autosomal genetic signatures as MA-1, suggesting that the region was continuously occupied by humans throughout the Last Glacial Maximum. Our findings reveal that western Eurasian genetic signatures in modern-day Native Americans derive not only from post- Columbian admixture, as commonly thought, but also from a mixed ancestry of the First Americans.

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The newest work has some intriguing findings,
namely that modern Europeans and west eurasians share a common heritage whith native Americans.
In fact one of the graphics seems to show that on the y DNA side, modern Europeans and west eurasians are downstream genetically from native Americans and the Mal'ta child(Ma1 in the study)

At the first glance, this fragment of the mtDNA tree looks ordinary. The Mal’ta sequence (MA-1) occupies its own clade within hg U. But what transpires if one peels the onion on it and compares all these clade and sub-clade defining mutations with the existing ancient mtDNA from extinct Eurasian hominins (Denisovans and Neandertals) is that 20%+ of these major substitutions defining the internal structure of the U clade in modern humans have exact matches with Denisovan substitutions. On MA-1 sites 13350 and 16399 are such “ancestral retentions.” The latter one is polymorphic on Denisovans, which is a rare case as Denisovan mtDNAs from the tooth and from the pinkie are nearly identical.

For the major U clades here’re the Denisovan 1-2 (+/1 Neandertal 1-6) matches I detected:
U: A12372 (D1,2)
U1: C12879 (D1,2), G13104 (D1,2), A15148 (D1,2,N), C16249 (D1,2),
U6: C16172 (D1,2),
U3: T150 (D1,2, N),
U4: C16356 (D1,2),
U9: A3834 (D1,2)
U7: C152 (D1,2, N, most humans), A14569 (D1,2).
Considering that these are direct matches with the hominin DNA collected in the same general area of South Siberia as Mal’ta DNA is from, I find it pretty interesting in the light of the recent discussions I had about “archaic admixture” on mtDNA.

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Wouldnt these findings suggesting their ancestors are the Olmecs which could indicate that they are the precursor not only to native Americans of North America but also the Mayan and Aztec nations of Central and South America.
In reality they're all native Americans correct?

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Wouldnt these findings suggesting their ancestors are the Olmecs which could indicate that they are the precursor not only to native Americans of North America but also the Mayan and Aztec nations of Central and South America.
In reality they're all native Americans correct?

Sorry ,
But the study has no bearing olmecs directly, since we are talking about a time period 24000 years ago.
But the descendants of these people were the ancestors of the people who would become the olmecs.
And the aztecs, actually the uto-Aztec speaking people, are descended from native Californians that migrated to the southwest and Mexico some 6000 years ago, as they were being displaced by the newly arriving penutians.
In some instances they brought penutian mythology with them as they moved into Mexico.