Lactase persistence alleles reveal partial east African ancestry of southern African Khoe pastoralists

Current Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 852-858

  Breton, Gwenna ^a,b   Schlebusch, Carina M ^a   Lombard, Marlize ^c   Sjödin, Per ^a   Soodyall, Himla ^d   Jakobsson, Mattias ^a,e  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTASE;

ADAPTATION; AFRICA; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BLACK PERSON; DNA SEQUENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HISTORY; HUMAN; LACTOSE INTOLERANCE; MIGRATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AFRICA, SOUTHERN; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BASE SEQUENCE; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; LACTASE; LACTOSE INTOLERANCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84898791990     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.02.041     Document Type: Article

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