Northeast African genomic variation shaped by the continuity of indigenous groups and Eurasian migrations. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2017 Northeast Africa has a long history of human habitation, with fossil-finds from the earliest anatomically modern humans, and housing ancient civilizations.
Nina Hollfelder +5 more
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The date of interbreeding between Neandertals and modern humans [PDF]
, 2012 Comparisons of DNA sequences between Neandertals and present-day humans have shown that Neandertals share more genetic variants with non-Africans than with Africans.
Li, Heng +4 more
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Geographic patterns of genome admixture in Latin American Mestizos. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2008 The large and diverse population of Latin America is potentially a powerful resource for elucidating the genetic basis of complex traits through admixture mapping.
Sijia Wang +27 more
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Tracing evolutionary history and admixture in mixed‐ploidy systems [PDF]
Molecular Ecology Resources, 2021 Polyploidy, resulting from whole genome duplication, is a widespread phenomenon throughout Eukaryotic kingdoms. It is estimated that 15% of speciation events in plants is due to polyploidization and 16% of plant species encompass ploidy variation. In spite of the evolutionary and economic significance of polyploidy, there is a limited set of tools that
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Inference of population splits and mixtures from genome-wide allele frequency data [PDF]
, 2012 Many aspects of the historical relationships between populations in a species are reflected in genetic data. Inferring these relationships from genetic data, however, remains a challenging task. In this paper, we present a statistical model for inferring
A Keinan +66 more
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Legofit: estimating population history from genetic data
BMC Bioinformatics, 2019 Background Our current understanding of archaic admixture in humans relies on statistical methods with large biases, whose magnitudes depend on the sizes and separation times of ancestral populations.
Alan R. Rogers
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Admixture with indigenous people helps local adaptation: admixture-enabled selection in Polynesians
BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Background Homo sapiens have experienced admixture many times in the last few thousand years. To examine how admixture affects local adaptation, we investigated genomes of modern Polynesians, who are shaped through admixture between Austronesian-speaking
Mariko Isshiki +12 more
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The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans. [PDF]
, 2009 Africa is the source of all modern humans, but characterization of genetic variation and of relationships among populations across the continent has been enigmatic. We studied 121 African populations, four African American populations, and 60 non-African
A. A. Awomoyi +61 more
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PLoS ONE, 2012 Recently admixed populations offer unique opportunities for studying human history and for elucidating the genetic basis of complex traits that differ in prevalence between human populations. Historical records, classical protein markers, and preliminary
Sandra Beleza +7 more
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Genome-wide SNP analysis of Southern African populations provides new insights into the dispersal of Bantu-speaking groups [PDF]
, 2015 The expansion of Bantu-speaking agropastoralist populations had a great impact on the genetic, linguistic, and cultural variation of sub-Saharan Africa. It is generally accepted that Bantu languages originated in an area around the present border between
ANAGNOSTOU, PAOLO +8 more
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