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Genetic and demographic implications of the Bantu expansion: insights from human paternal lineages.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Jul 2009
Berniell-Lee Gemma, Calafell Francesc, Bosch Elena, Heyer Evelyne, Sica Lucas, Mouguiama-Daouda Patrick, van der Veen Lolke, Hombert Jean-Marie, Quintana-Murci Lluis, Comas David
Abstract excerpt
The expansion of Bantu languages, which started around 5,000 years before present in west/central Africa and spread all throughout sub-Saharan Africa, may represent one of the major and most rapid demographic movements in the history of the human species. Although the genetic footprints of this expansion have been unmasked through the analyses of the maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA lineages, information on...
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