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Lemba origins revisited: tracing the ancestry of Y chromosomes in South African and Zimbabwean Lemba.

South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde - 11 Oct 2013

Soodyall Himla

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BACKGROUND: Previous historical, anthropological and genetic data provided overwhelming support for the Semitic origins of the Lemba, a Bantu-speaking people in southern Africa. OBJECTIVE: To revisit the question concerning genetic affinities between the Lemba and Jews. METHODS: Y-chromosome variation was examined in two Lemba groups: one from South Africa (SA) and, for the first time, a group from Zimbabwe...

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PMID: 24300649
DOI: 10.7196/samj.7297

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