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Phylogeography of sub-Saharan mitochondrial lineages outside Africa highlights ...
Sá, Luísa; Almeida, Mafalda; Azonbakin, Simon; Matos, Erica; Franco-Duarte, Ricardo; Gómez-Carballa, Alberto; Salas, Antonio; Laleye, AnatóleDespite the importance of ancient DNA for understanding human prehistoric dispersals, poor survival means that data remain sparse for many areas in the tropics, including in Africa. In such instances, analysis of contemporary genomes remains invaluable. One promising approach is founder analysis, which identifies and dates migration events in non-recombining systems. However, it has yet to be fully exploited as...
Biomolecular insights into North African-related ancestry, mobility and diet in...
Silva, Marina; Oteo-García, Gonzalo; Martiniano, Rui; Guimarães, João; von Tersch, Matthew; Madour, Ali; Shoeib, Tarek; Fichera, AlessandroHistorical records document medieval immigration from North Africa to Iberia to create Islamic al-Andalus. Here, we present a low-coverage genome of an eleventh century CE man buried in an Islamic necropolis in Segorbe, near Valencia, Spain. Uniparental lineages indicate North African ancestry, but at the autosomal level he displays a mosaic of North African and European-like ancestries, distinct from any prese...
Mosaic maternal ancestry in the Great Lakes region of East Africa
Gomes, Verónica; Pala, Maria; Salas, Antonio; Álvarez‑Iglesias, Vanesa; Amorim, António; Gómez‑Carballa, Alberto; Carracedo, Ángel; Clarke, Douglas J.The Great Lakes lie within a region of East Africa with very high human genetic diversity, home of many ethno-linguistic groups usually assumed to be the product of a small number of major dispersals. However, our knowledge of these dispersals relies primarily on the inferences of historical, linguistics and oral traditions, with attempts to match up the archaeological evidence where possible. This is an obviou...