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Bight of Benin: a Maternal Perspective of Four Beninese Populations and their Genetic Implications on the American Populations of African Ancestry.
Annals of human genetics - 1 Mar 2017
Primativo Giuseppina, Ottoni Claudio, Biondi Gianfranco, Serafino Sara, Martínez-Labarga Cristina, Larmuseau Maarten H D, Scardi Michele, Decorte Ronny, Rickards Olga
Abstract excerpt
The understanding of the first movements of the ancestral populations within the African continent is still unclear, particularly in West Africa, due to several factors that have shaped the African genetic pool across time. To improve the genetic representativeness of the Beninese population and to better understand the patterns of human settlement inside West Africa and the dynamics of peopling of the Democratic...
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