Prehistoric and historic traces in the mtDNA of Mozambique: insights into the Bantu expansions and the slave trade

A sample of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from the southeastern African population of Mozambique has been shown to have affinities with populations both to its north and south. From the north came sequences that may have been involved in the Bantu expansion (from western, through eastern, to southern Af...

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Main Author: Pereira, L (author)
Other Authors: Macaulay, V (author), Torroni, A (author), Scozzari, R (author), Prata, MJ (author), Amorim, A (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2001
Subjects:
DNA Mitochondrial
Emigration and Immigration
Genetic Variation
Humans
Mozambique/ethnology
Phylogeny
Polymorphism Restriction Fragment Length
Principal Component Analysis
Sequence Analysis
Social Problems/ethnology
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10216/109597
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio-aberto.up.pt:10216/109597

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