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Ancient west Eurasian ancestry in southern and eastern Africa.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 18 Feb 2014
Pickrell Joseph K, Patterson Nick, Loh Po-Ru, Lipson Mark, Berger Bonnie, Stoneking Mark, Pakendorf Brigitte, Reich David
Abstract excerpt
The history of southern Africa involved interactions between indigenous hunter-gatherers and a range of populations that moved into the region. Here we use genome-wide genetic data to show that there are at least two admixture events in the history of Khoisan populations (southern African hunter-gatherers and pastoralists who speak non-Bantu languages with click consonants). One involved populations related to...
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