Genetic Consequences of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Americas

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2020, Pages 265-277

  Micheletti, Steven J ^a   Bryc, Kasia ^a   Ancona Esselmann, Samantha G ^a   Freyman, William A ^a   Moreno, Meghan E ^a   Poznik, G David ^a   Shastri, Anjali J ^a   Agee, M ^c   Aslibekyan, S ^c   Auton, A ^c   Bell, R ^c   Clark, S ^c   Das, S ^c   Elson, S ^c   Fletez Brant, K ^c   Fontanillas, P ^c   Gandhi, P ^c   Heilbron, K ^c   Hicks, B ^c   Hinds, D ^c   Huber, K ^c   Jewett, E ^c   Jiang, Y ^c   Kleinman, A ^c   Lin, K ^c   Litterman, N ^c   McCreight, J ^c   McIntyre, M ^c   McManus, K ^c   Mozaffari, S ^c   Nandakumar, P ^c   Noblin, L ^c   Northover, C ^c   O'Connell, J ^c   Petrakovitz, A ^c   Pitts, S ^c   Shelton, J ^c   Shringarpure, S ^c   Tian, C ^c   Tung, J ^c   Tunney, R ^c   Vacic, V ^c   Wang, X ^c   Zare, A ^c   Beleza, Sandra ^b   Mountain, Joanna L ^a   more..

^a 23andMe Inc ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

admixture; Africa; Americas; ancestry; genetics; history; identity by descent; migration; population genetics; slave trade

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; AFRICAN; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCUMENTATION; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; GENE POOL; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION GENETICS; SHIPPING; SLAVE TRADE; SLAVERY; SURVIVAL RATE; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

EID: 85088925616     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: 15376605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2020.06.012     Document Type: Article

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