Abstract The Great Lakes lie within a region of East Africa with very high human genetic
diversity, home of many ethno-linguistic groups usually assumed to be the product of a small …

Africa presents the most complex genetic picture of any continent, with a time depth for
mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) lineages> 100,000 years. The most recent widespread …

The Bantu languages are widely distributed throughout sub‐Saharan Africa. Genetic
research supports linguists and historians who argue that migration played an important role …

The presence of sub‐Saharan L‐type mtDNA sequences in North Africa has traditionally
been explained by the recent slave trade. However, gene flow between sub‐Saharan and …

Genetic studies have emphasized the contrast between North African and sub-Saharan
populations, but the particular affinities of the North African mtDNA pool to that of Europe, the …

West Africa is characterized by a migration history spanning more than 150,000 years.
Climate changes but also political circumstances were responsible for several early but also …

In this study, we report novel data on mitochondrial DNA in two of the largest eastern Bantu‐
speaking populations, the Shona from Zimbabwe and the Hutu from Rwanda. The goal is to …

Among the deepest-rooting clades in the human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) phylogeny are
the haplogroups defined as L0d and L0k, which are found primarily in southern Africa …

We analyzed 375 base pairs (bp) of the first hypervariable region (HVS‐I) of the
mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region and intergenic COII/tRNALys 9‐bp deletion from …

The Khoisan populations of southern Africa are known to harbor some of the deepest‐
rooting lineages of human mtDNA; however, their relationships are as yet poorly …