Dispersals and genetic adaptation of Bantu-speaking populations in Africa and North America

2017/05/04 by Étienne Patin, Marie Lopez, Rébecca Grollemund +21 · 299 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Forensic and Genetic Research #Bantu languages #Adaptation (eye) #Ethnology #Geography #Rainforest #Evolutionary biology #Biology #History #Linguistics #Ecology

paper · open access · doi:10.1126/science.aal1988

published in Science 356(6337), 543-546 (American Association for the Advancement of Science)

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Abstract

loci. Finally, we identified a major contribution of western central African Bantu speakers to the ancestry of African Americans, whose genomes present no strong signals of natural selection. Together, these results highlight the contribution of Bantu-speaking peoples to the complex genetic history of Africans and African Americans.

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