Migration and interaction in a contact zone: mtDNA variation among Bantu-speakers in Southern Africa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Barbieri, Chiara ^a,b   Vicente, Mário ^c,d,i   Oliveira, Sandra ^c,e   Bostoen, Koen ^f,g   Rocha, Jorge ^c,e   Stoneking, Mark ^a   Pakendorf, Brigitte ^h  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^d STAB VIDA   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^f GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^g UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^h UNIVERSITÉ LUMIÈRE LYON 2   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANCESTRY GROUP; ANGOLA; ARTICLE; BANTU; BANTU PEOPLE; BOTSWANA; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; NAMIBIA; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ZAMBIA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; BLACK PERSON; CLASSIFICATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MIGRATION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84902531850     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099117     Document Type: Article

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