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A comparison of worldwide phonemic and genetic variation in human populations.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 3 Feb 2015

Creanza Nicole, Ruhlen Merritt, Pemberton Trevor J, Rosenberg Noah A, Feldman Marcus W, Ramachandran Sohini

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Worldwide patterns of genetic variation are driven by human demographic history. Here, we test whether this demographic history has left similar signatures on phonemes-sound units that distinguish meaning between words in languages-to those it has left on genes. We analyze, jointly and in parallel, phoneme inventories from 2,082 worldwide languages and microsatellite polymorphisms from 246 worldwide populations....

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PMID: 25605893
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1424033112
PMCID: PMC4321277

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