Tracing pastoralist migrations to southern Africa with lactase persistence alleles

Current Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 875-879

  Macholdt, Enrico ^a   Lede, Vera ^a   Barbieri, Chiara ^a,e   Mpoloka, Sununguko W ^b   Chen, Hua ^c   Slatkin, Montgomery ^c   Pakendorf, Brigitte ^d   Stoneking, Mark ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LUMIÈRE LYON 2   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTASE; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

AFRICA; BLACK PERSON; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; HISTORY; HUMAN; MIGRATION; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AFRICA, SOUTHERN; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; LACTASE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84898798010     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.027     Document Type: Article

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