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 …

Linguistic and archaeological evidence about the origins of the Malagasy, the indigenous
peoples of Madagascar, points to mixed African and Indonesian ancestry. By contrast …

The origin of the Malagasy population has been a subject of speculation since the 16th
century. Contributions of African, Asian, Indian, Melanesian, Arabic and Persian populations …

The Austronesian expansion, one of the last major human migrations, influenced regions as
distant as tropical Asia, Remote Oceania and Madagascar, off the east coast of Africa. The …

Linguistic and cultural evidence suggest that Madagascar was the final point of two major
dispersals of Austronesian-and Bantu-speaking populations. Today, the Mikea are …

Although situated∼ 400 km from the east coast of Africa, Madagascar exhibits cultural,
linguistic, and genetic traits from both Southeast Asia and Eastern Africa. The settlement …

Malagasy genetic diversity results from an exceptional protoglobalization process that took
place over a thousand years ago across the Indian Ocean. Previous efforts to locate the …

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 …

The Malay people are an important ethnic composition in Southeast Asia, but their genetic
make-up and population structure remain poorly studied. Here we conducted a genome …

Studying the genetic history of the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia can provide crucial
clues to the peopling of Southeast Asia as a whole. We have analyzed mitochondrial DNA …