Dispersals and genetic adaptation of Bantu-speaking populations in Africa and North America

Étienne Patin, Marie Lopez, Rébecca Grollemund, Paul Verdu, Christine Harmant, Hélène Quach, Guillaume Laval, George H. Perry, Luis B. Barreiro, Alain Froment,

Science · 2017 · 298 citations · 47 references

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loci. Finally, we identified a major contribution of western central African Bantu speakers to the ancestry of African Americans, whose genomes present no strong signals of natural selection. Together, these results highlight the contribution of Bantu-speaking peoples to the complex genetic history of Africans and African Americans.

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