Genetic perspectives on forager-farmer interaction in the Luangwa Valley of Zambia

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 382-394

  De Filippo, Cesare ^a   Heyn, Patricia ^a,c   Barham, Lawrence ^b   Stoneking, Mark ^a   Pakendorf, Brigitte ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Bantu; Hunter gatherers; mtDNA; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADULT; AFRICA; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME POLYMORPHISM; COMMUNITY; DEMOGRAPHY; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FEMALE; FOOD INDUSTRY; FORAGER; GENE FLOW; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATERNITY; PLESIOMORPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL INTERACTION; Y CHROMOSOME; ZAMBIA;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; ZAMBIA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 76149106145     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21155     Document Type: Article

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