A genomic portrait of haplotype diversity and signatures of selection in indigenous southern African populations.

We report a study of genome-wide, dense SNP (∼ 900K) and copy number polymorphism data of indigenous southern Africans. We demonstrate the genetic contribution to southern and eastern African populations, which involved admixture between indigenous San, Niger-Congo-speaking and populations of Eurasi...

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Main Authors: Emile R Chimusa, Ayton Meintjies, Milaine Tchanga, Nicola Mulder, Cathal Seoighe, Himla Soodyall, Rajkumar Ramesar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-03-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4374865?pdf=render