Strong selection during the last millennium for African ancestry in the admixed population of Madagascar

Nature Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Pierron, Denis ^a   Heiske, Margit ^a   Razafindrazaka, Harilanto ^a,b   Pereda Loth, Veronica ^a   Sanchez, Jazmin ^a   Alva, Omar ^a   Arachiche, Amal ^a   Boland, Anne ^c   Olaso, Robert ^c   Deleuze, Jean Francois ^c   Ricaut, Francois Xavier ^a   Rakotoarisoa, Jean Aimé ^d   Radimilahy, Chantal ^d   Stoneking, Mark ^e   Letellier, Thierry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE GÉNOTYPAGE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTANANARIVO   (Madagascar)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ALLELE; ANCESTRY; CHROMOSOME; DISEASE; GENE; GENOME; PARASITE; SELECTION;

ANCESTRY GROUP; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP DUFFY SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHROMOSOME 1; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOME; HUMAN; MADAGASCAR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAGASY (PEOPLE); NATURAL SELECTION; NULL ALLELE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; BLACK PERSON; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN GENOME; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; ASIA; MADAGASCAR;

PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DUFFY BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MADAGASCAR; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85042767097     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03342-5     Document Type: Article

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