Genetic legacy of state centralization in the Kuba Kingdom of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 593-598

  van Dorp, Lucy ^a   Lowes, Sara ^b   Weigel, Jonathan L ^c   Ansari Pour, Naser ^d   López, Saioa ^a   Mendoza Revilla, Javier ^a,e,f   Robinson, James A ^g   Henrich, Joseph ^h   Thomas, Mark G ^a   Nunn, Nathan ⁱ   Hellenthal, Garrett ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^e UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^f INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^h HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropology; Demographic inference; History; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; CENTRALIZATION; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION GENETICS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE FLOW; HUMAN GENETICS;

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; HUMAN GENETICS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 85059647616     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1811211115     Document Type: Article

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