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SUBMITTER: Henn BM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2504844 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Henn Brenna M BM Gignoux Christopher C Lin Alice A AA Oefner Peter J PJ Shen Peidong P Scozzari Rosaria R Cruciani Fulvio F Tishkoff Sarah A SA Mountain Joanna L JL Underhill Peter A PA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20080804 31
Although geneticists have extensively debated the mode by which agriculture diffused from the Near East to Europe, they have not directly examined similar agropastoral diffusions in Africa. It is unclear, for example, whether early instances of sheep, cows, pottery, and other traits of the pastoralist package were transmitted to southern Africa by demic or cultural diffusion. Here, we report a newly discovered Y-chromosome-specific polymorphism that defines haplogroup E3b1f-M293. This polymorphi ...[more]