Extensive population structure in San, Khoe, and mixed ancestry populations from southern Africa revealed by 44 short 5-SNP haplotypes.

doi:10.3378/027.084.0603

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Extensive population structure in San, Khoe, and mixed ancestry populations from southern Africa revealed by 44 short 5-SNP haplotypes.

Human biology - 1 Dec 2012

Schlebusch Carina M, Soodyall Himlya

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The San and Khoe people currently represent remnant groups of a much larger and widely distributed population of hunter-gatherers and pastoralists who had exclusive occupation of southern Africa before the arrival of Bantu-speaking groups in the past 1,200 years and sea-borne immigrants within the last 350 years. Genetic studies [mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and Y-chromosome] conducted on San and...

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Africa, Southern
Black People
Female
Genetics, Population
Genotype
Haplotypes
Humans
Male
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide

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PMID: 23959644
DOI: 10.3378/027.084.0603

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