Article
Mitochondrial footprints of human expansions in Africa.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Sept 1997
Watson E, Forster P, Richards M, Bandelt H J
Abstract excerpt
mtDNA studies support an African origin for modern Eurasians, but expansion events within Africa have not previously been investigated. We have therefore analyzed 407 mtDNA control-region sequences from 13 African ethnic groups. A number of sequences (13%) were highly divergent and coalesced on t...
Topics
- Africa South of the Sahara
- Asia
- Base Sequence
- Biological Evolution
- Black People
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Ethnicity
- Europe
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetic Variation
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data