What happened to the Amerindians in the Caribbean?

[Peterski]

Native Amerindian mtDNA haplogroup frequencies in regional Cuban populations:



Autosomal contribution is lower but still substantial (between few % and twenty %):

http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetic...l.pgen.1004488

In Dominican Republic there is probably around 10% of Native autosomal admixture.

At least a bit over 10% is what user Dominicanese scores in GEDmatch calculators:

In new MDLP K11 he scores ~11% Amerindian:

# Population Percent
1 African 26.39
2 Neolithic 25.29
3 WHG 15.45
4 EHG 13.08
5 Amerindian 9.99
6 Basal 8.65
7 Siberian 1.11
8 ASI 0.04

In MDLP World-22 he scores a bit less (~10%):

# Population Percent
1 Atlantic_Mediterranean_Neolithic 25.37
2 Sub-Saharian 25.36
3 North-East-European 18.15
4 Near_East 10.62
5 West-Asian 6.31
6 North-Amerind 4.78
7 Mesoamerican 2.52
8 South-America_Amerind 2.41
9 North-European-Mesolithic 1.96
10 South-African 0.95
11 Indo-Tibetan 0.7
12 Pygmy 0.46
13 Paleo-Siberian 0.4
14 Indian 0.02

And in Eurogenes K13 almost 11% Amerindian:

# Population Percent
1 Sub-Saharan 23.11
2 North_Atlantic 22.82
3 West_Med 15.75
4 East_Med 11.98
5 Amerindian 9.05
6 Baltic 6.89
7 Red_Sea 3.32
8 Northeast_African 3.1
9 West_Asian 2.36
10 Siberian 1.62

Etc., etc.

[RMuller]

Their is no pure Amerindians in the Carribean Islands.