Degree of European Inheritance in Speakers of Indigenous Languages in Mexico

Resumen

This study analyzed 23 markers of the Y-chromosome on 11 groups of contemporary indigenous language speakers from Mexico. In a sample of 503 individuals, we found the proportion of Old-World haplotypes to be 23%. This percentage is the consequence of the colonizing domain established in the country during the early centuries after the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards and was accentuated by the nationalist society of the 20^th century. Among the different forms of violence that provoked the introgression of Old-World paternal lineages in Mexican indigenous populations, we highlight the violation of women.

Keywords: Indigenous Mexicans, women discrimination, non-Native-Amerindian heredity, Y-chromosome, strs.