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  • Study ties present-day Native American tribe to ancestors in San Francisco Bay Area

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    U. of I. anthropology professor Ripan Malhi and his colleagues found genomic evidence linking present-day members of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe in the San Francisco Bay Area with individuals who lived in the region several hundred to 2,000 years ago.

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  • Editor’s notes

    To reach Ripan Malhi, email malhi@illinois.edu.

    To reach Noah Rosenberg, email noahr@stanford.edu.

    To reach the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, email Alan Leventhal at aleventh@muwekma.org.  

    To reach Brian Byrd, email brian@farwestern.com.

    The paper “Ancient and modern genomics of the Ohlone Indigenous population of California” is available from PNASNews@nas.edu and from the U. of I. News Bureau.

    DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2111533119