Article
Identification of the ancestral haplotype for apolipoprotein B suggests an African origin of Homo sapiens sapiens and traces their subsequent migration to Europe and the Pacific.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 Feb 1991
Rapacz J, Chen L, Butler-Brunner E, Wu M J, Hasler-Rapacz J O, Butler R, Schumaker V N
Abstract excerpt
The probable ancestral haplotype for human apolipoprotein B (apoB) has been identified through immunological analysis of chimpanzee and gorilla serum and sequence analysis of their DNA. Moreover, the frequency of this ancestral apoB haplotype among different human populations provides strong support for the African origin of Homo sapiens sapiens and their subsequent migration from Africa to Europe and to the...
Topics
- Africa
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Apolipoproteins B
- Asia
- Australia
- Base Sequence
- Biological Evolution
- Ethnicity
- Europe