Genomics

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“Human population genetics” team (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France)

ABSTRACT: Data Access Committee EGAC00001000147

PROVIDER: EGAC00001000147 | EGA |

REPOSITORIES: EGA

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Microsatellite data show recent demographic expansions in sedentary but not in nomadic human populations in Africa and Eurasia.

Aimé Carla C   Verdu Paul P   Ségurel Laure L   Martinez-Cruz Begoña B   Hegay Tatyana T   Heyer Evelyne E   Austerlitz Frédéric F  

European journal of human genetics : EJHG 20140212 10

The transition from hunting and gathering to plant and animal domestication was one of the most important cultural and technological revolutions in human history. According to archeologists and paleoanthropologists, this transition triggered major demographic expansions. However, few genetic studies have found traces of Neolithic expansions in the current repartition of genetic polymorphism, pointing rather toward Paleolithic expansions. Here, we used microsatellite autosomal data to investigate  ...[more]