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The Comoros Show the Earliest Austronesian Gene Flow into the Swahili Corridor.
American journal of human genetics - 4 Jan 2018
Brucato Nicolas, Fernandes Veronica, Mazières Stéphane, Kusuma Pradiptajati, Cox Murray P, Ng'ang'a Joseph Wainaina, Omar Mohammed, Simeone-Senelle Marie-Claude, Frassati Coralie, Alshamali Farida, Fin Bertrand, Boland Anne, Deleuze Jean-Francois, Stoneking Mark, Adelaar Alexander, Crowther Alison, Boivin Nicole, Pereira Luisa, Bailly Pascal, Chiaroni Jacques, Ricaut François-Xavier
Abstract excerpt
At the dawn of the second millennium, the expansion of the Indian Ocean trading network aligned with the emergence of an outward-oriented community along the East African coast to create a cosmopolitan cultural and trading zone known as the Swahili Corridor. On the basis of analyses of new genome-wide genotyping data and uniparental data in 276 individuals from coastal Kenya and the Comoros islands, along with...
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