Because modern humans originated in Africa and have adapted to diverse environments,
African populations have high levels of genetic and phenotypic diversity. Thus, genomic …

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) has ten genotypes (A–J) and over 40 sub-genotypes based on the
divergence of≥ 8% and 4 to< 8% in the complete genome respectively. These genotypes …

The expansion of Bantu languages represents one of the most momentous events in the
history of Africa. While it is well accepted that Bantu languages spread from their homeland …

The emergence of more refined chronologies for climate change and archaeology in
prehistoric Africa, and for the evolution of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), now make it …

The majority of sub-Saharan Africans today speak a number of closely related languages
collectively referred to as 'Bantu'languages. The current distribution of Bantu-speaking …

Objectives: Hypertension is a major burden among African migrants, but the extent of the
differences in prevalence, treatment, and control among similar African migrants and …

The Malagasy have been shown to be a genetically admixed population combining parental
lineages with African and South East Asian ancestry. In the present paper, we fit the …

The expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples over large parts of sub-Saharan Africa is still a
matter of debate—not only with respect to the propelling force behind it and the route (s) …

Click consonants are one of the hallmarks of “Khoisan” languages of southern Africa. They
are also found in some Bantu languages, where they are usually assumed to have been …

The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genetic system has long proven to be useful for studying
the demographic history of our species, since their proposed Southeast/East African origin …