Population history of North Africa based on modern and ancient genomes

M Lucas-Sánchez, JM Serradell… - Human Molecular …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… This was also supported by the presence of similar mtDNA haplogroups (U6, M1) associated
with the back-to-Africa migration (30), suggesting a continuity between Later Stone Age …

The genomic analysis of current-day North African populations reveals the existence of trans-Saharan migrations with different origins and dates

M Lucas-Sánchez, K Fadhlaoui-Zid, D Comas - Human Genetics, 2023 - Springer
… the genetic influence of trans-Saharan migrations in current-day North Africa and characterize
its amount, geographical origin, … dates of these migrations are also supported by the large …

Ancient Admixture into Africa from the ancestors of non-Africans

CB Cole, SJ Zhu, I Mathieson, K Prüfer, G Lunter - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
… We find evidence for substantial migration from the ancestors … directional migration rates in
whole genome sequencing … To more directly support the interpretation that the lower African N …

Human genomic diversity where the Mediterranean joins the Atlantic

CL Hernández, G Pita, B Cavadas… - Molecular biology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… again support signatures of contacts between the north and … high-genetic heterogeneity
among North African populations … and extent of human migrations between continents and the …

Understanding the genomic heterogeneity of North African Imazighen: from broad to microgeographical perspectives

L Vilà-Valls, A Abdeli, M Lucas-Sánchez, A Bekada… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
… in North Africa was introduced by more than one migration wave. … have been introduced in
a back-to-Africa movement, more than … Our findings support the notion that North Africa has a …

[PDF][PDF] Evolutionary genetics and admixture in African populations

A Pfennig, LN Petersen, P Kachambwa… - Genome Biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
… Ancient genomes from North Africa evidence prehistoric migrations to the Maghreb from
both the Levant and Europe. Proc … Genomic ancestry of North Africans supports back-to-Africa

Modelling the demographic history of human North African genomes points to a recent soft split divergence between populations

JM Serradell, J Lorenzo-Salazar, C Flores, O Lao… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
… Both methods point to a back-to-Africa origin of North Africanmigration between North African
populations and their 174 … from surrounding regions are also supported 397 by our model. …

The deep population history in Africa

N Hollfelder, G Breton, P Sjödin… - Human Molecular …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… or genetic make-up by providing information before migration … even African islands; the
oldest samples, from north Africa, … supported by other studies that found Neanderthal ancestry

Whole mitogenomes reveal that NW Africa has acted both as a source and a destination for multiple human movements

J Aizpurua-Iraola, A Abdeli, T Benhassine, F Calafell… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
… of North African populations in genetic databases… North African sequences outside the North
African specific clades which might reflect independent migrations events throughout history

[PDF][PDF] Genetics and the African past

ME Prendergast, EA Sawchuk… - Oxf Res Encycl Afr …, 2022 - reich.hms.harvard.edu
… Increasingly, forced migrations of enslaved Africans and the … evidence has continued to
support an African origin for H. … a greater genetic impact on present-day North Africans than later …