Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Pickrell JK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3932865 | biostudies-other | 2014 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Pickrell Joseph K JK Patterson Nick N Loh Po-Ru PR Lipson Mark M Berger Bonnie B Stoneking Mark M Pakendorf Brigitte B Reich David D
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20140203 7
The history of southern Africa involved interactions between indigenous hunter-gatherers and a range of populations that moved into the region. Here we use genome-wide genetic data to show that there are at least two admixture events in the history of Khoisan populations (southern African hunter-gatherers and pastoralists who speak non-Bantu languages with click consonants). One involved populations related to Niger-Congo-speaking African populations, and the other introduced ancestry most close ...[more]