Sociocultural behavior, sex-biased admixture, and effective population sizes in central African pygmies and non-pygmies

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 918-937

  Verdu, Paul ^a,b   Becker, Noémie S A ^b   Froment, Alain ^b   Georges, Myriam ^b   Grugni, Viola ^c   Quintana Murci, Lluis ^d   Hombert, Jean Marie ^e   Van Der Veen, Lolke ^e   Le Bomin, Sylvie ^b   Bahuchet, Serge ^b   Heyer, Evelyne ^b   Austerlitz, Frédéric ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e Institut des Sciences de l'Homme   (France)

Author keywords

African Pygmy; approximate Bayesian computation; demography; history; human population genetics; sex specific

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; AUTOSOME; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAMEROON; CENTRAL AFRICA; CHROMOSOME 6; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL BIAS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; FEMALE; GABON; GENDER BIAS; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTROGRESSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MUTATION RATE; POLYGYNY; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPOUSE;

AFRICA, CENTRAL; BAYES THEOREM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENES, X-LINKED; GENES, Y-LINKED; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GROWTH DISORDERS; HAPLOTYPES; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DENSITY; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84875597857     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mss328     Document Type: Article

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