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SUBMITTER: Prendergast ME
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6827346 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Prendergast Mary E ME Lipson Mark M Sawchuk Elizabeth A EA Olalde Iñigo I Ogola Christine A CA Rohland Nadin N Sirak Kendra A KA Adamski Nicole N Bernardos Rebecca R Broomandkhoshbacht Nasreen N Callan Kimberly K Culleton Brendan J BJ Eccles Laurie L Harper Thomas K TK Lawson Ann Marie AM Mah Matthew M Oppenheimer Jonas J Stewardson Kristin K Zalzala Fatma F Ambrose Stanley H SH Ayodo George G Gates Henry Louis HL Gidna Agness O AO Katongo Maggie M Kwekason Amandus A Mabulla Audax Z P AZP Mudenda George S GS Ndiema Emmanuel K EK Nelson Charles C Robertshaw Peter P Kennett Douglas J DJ Manthi Fredrick K FK Reich David D
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20190530 6448
How food production first entered eastern Africa ~5000 years ago and the extent to which people moved with livestock is unclear. We present genome-wide data from 41 individuals associated with Later Stone Age, Pastoral Neolithic (PN), and Iron Age contexts in what are now Kenya and Tanzania to examine the genetic impacts of the spreads of herding and farming. Our results support a multiphase model in which admixture between northeastern African-related peoples and eastern African foragers formed ...[more]