Molecular perspectives on the Bantu expansion: a synthesis

B Pakendorf, C de Filippo, K Bostoen - Language Dynamics and Change, 2011 - brill.com
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) …

Age of the Association between Helicobacter pylori and Man

Y Moodley, B Linz, RP Bond, M Nieuwoudt… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
When modern humans left Africa ca. 60,000 years ago (60 kya), they were already infected
with Helicobacter pylori, and these bacteria have subsequently diversified in parallel with …

Ancient genomes reveal complex patterns of population movement, interaction, and replacement in sub-Saharan Africa

K Wang, S Goldstein, M Bleasdale, B Clist… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Africa hosts the greatest human genetic diversity globally, but legacies of ancient population
interactions and dispersals across the continent remain understudied. Here, we report …

Complex patterns of genomic admixture within southern Africa

DC Petersen, O Libiger, EA Tindall, RA Hardie… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Within-population genetic diversity is greatest within Africa, while between-population
genetic diversity is directly proportional to geographic distance. The most divergent …

Genetic variation reveals large-scale population expansion and migration during the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples

S Li, C Schlebusch… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
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 …

Population structure and infectious disease risk in southern Africa

C Uren, M Möller, PD van Helden, BM Henn… - Molecular Genetics and …, 2017 - Springer
The KhoeSan populations are the earliest known indigenous inhabitants of southern Africa.
The relatively recent expansion of Bantu-speaking agropastoralists, as well as European …

MtDNA control region variation affirms diversity and deep sub-structure in populations from southern Africa

CM Schlebusch, M Lombard, H Soodyall - BMC evolutionary biology, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Background The current San and Khoe populations are remnant groups of a much
larger and widely dispersed population of hunter-gatherers and pastoralists, who had …

Ancient substructure in early mtDNA lineages of southern Africa

C Barbieri, M Vicente, J Rocha, SW Mpoloka… - The American Journal of …, 2013 - cell.com
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 …

Pharmacogenomic research in South Africa: lessons learned and future opportunities in the rainbow nation

L Warnich, BI Drogemoller, MS Pepper… - Current …, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
South Africa, like many other developing countries, stands to benefit from novel diagnostics
and drugs developed by pharmacogenomics guidance due to high prevalence of disease …

Simultaneous whole mitochondrial genome sequencing with short overlapping amplicons suitable for degraded DNA using the ion torrent personal genome machine

L Chaitanya, A Ralf, M van Oven, T Kupiec… - Human …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Whole mitochondrial (mt) genome analysis enables a considerable increase in analysis
throughput, and improves the discriminatory power to the maximum possible phylogenetic …