The peopling of the last Green Sahara revealed by high-coverage resequencing of trans-Saharan patrilineages

Genome Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  D'Atanasio, Eugenia ^a   Trombetta, Beniamino ^a   Bonito, Maria ^a   Finocchio, Andrea ^b   Di Vito, Genny ^a   Seghizzi, Mara ^a   Romano, Rita ^c   Russo, Gianluca ^c   Paganotti, Giacomo Maria ^d,e   Watson, Elizabeth ^f   Coppa, Alfredo ^a   Anagnostou, Paolo ^a,g   Dugoujon, Jean Michel ^h   Moral, Pedro ⁱ   Sellitto, Daniele ^j   Novelletto, Andrea ^b   Cruciani, Fulvio ^a,j  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d BOTSWANA UPENN PARTNERSHIP   (Botswana)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^f SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^g Istituto Italiano di Antropologia   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^j CNR   (Italy)

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Author keywords

Green Sahara; MSY; Target next generation sequencing; Trans Saharan haplogroups

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; AFRICAN; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MARKER; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE POOL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LAST GREEN SAHARA; MALE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POPULATION DISPERSION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MIGRATION; Y CHROMOSOME; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 85041958280     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-018-1393-5     Document Type: Article

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