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Analysis of HLA gene polymorphisms in East Africans reveals evidence of gene flow in two Semitic populations from Sudan.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Aug 2021
Aamer Waleed, Hassan Hisham Y, Nakaoka Hirofumi, Hosomichi Kazuyoshi, Jaeger Martin, Tahir Hanan, Abdelraheem Mohammed H, Netea Mihai G, Inoue Ituro
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Sudan, a northeastern African country, is characterized by high levels of cultural, linguistic, and genetic diversity, which is believed to be affected by continuous migration from neighboring countries. Consistent with such demographic effect, genome-wide SNP data revealed a shared ancestral component among Sudanese Afro-Asiatic speaking groups and non-African populations, mainly from West Asia. Although this...
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