An early divergence of KhoeSan ancestors from those of other modern humans is supported by an ABC-based analysis of autosomal resequencing data

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 617-630

  Veeramah, Krishna R ^a   Wegmann, Daniel ^b   Woerner, August ^a   Mendez, Fernando L ^c   Watkins, Joseph C ^c   Destro Bisol, Giovanni ^d,e   Soodyall, Himla ^f   Louie, Leslie ^g   Hammer, Michael F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^e Istituto Italiano di Antropologia   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^g CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximate Bayesian Computation; demographic history; KhoeSan; Pygmy; resequencing; sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; BAYES THEOREM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MODERN TIMES; NIGER; RACE DIFFERENCE;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84855865075     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr212     Document Type: Article

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