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ArticleNature2020

Ancient West African foragers in the context of African population history.

Mark Lipson, Isabelle Ribot, Swapan Mallick, Nadin Rohland, Iñigo Olalde, Nicole Adamski, Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht, Ann Marie Lawson, Saioa López, Jonas Oppenheimer and 24 more

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Article in Nature, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 72 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

72 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

34 authors.

Mark LipsonDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. mlipson@genetics.med.harvard.edu.
Isabelle RibotDépartement d'Anthropologie, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Swapan MallickDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Nadin RohlandDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Iñigo OlaldeDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Nicole AdamskiDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Nasreen BroomandkhoshbachtDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Ann Marie LawsonDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Saioa LópezUCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, UK.
Jonas OppenheimerDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Kristin StewardsonDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Raymond Neba'ane AsombangDepartment of Arts and Archaeology, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Hervé BocherensDepartment of Geosciences, Biogeology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Neil BradmanUCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, UK.
Brendan J CulletonInstitutes of Energy and the Environment, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
Els CornelissenDepartment of Cultural Anthropology and History, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium.
Isabelle CrevecoeurCNRS, UMR 5199-PACEA, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.
Pierre de MaretFaculté de Philosophie et Sciences Sociales, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
Forka Leypey Mathew FomineDepartment of History and African Civilization, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon.
Philippe LavacheryAgence Wallonne du Patrimoine, Service Public de Wallonie, Namur, Belgium.
Christophe Mbida MindzieDepartment of Arts and Archaeology, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Rosine OrbanRoyal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium.
Elizabeth SawchukDepartment of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
Patrick SemalRoyal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium.
Mark G ThomasUCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, UK.
Wim Van NeerRoyal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium.
Krishna R VeeramahDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
Douglas J KennettDepartment of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
Nick PattersonDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Garrett HellenthalUCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, UK.
Carles Lalueza-FoxInstitute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF), Barcelona, Spain.
Scott MacEachernDivision of Social Science, Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan, China.
Mary E PrendergastDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
David ReichDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Funding

Population mixture in evolutionary and medical geneticsR01GM100233 · NIGMS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI PATTERSON, NICK J, REICH, DAVID E · 2012 to 2019
$2.7M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS GM100233NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM100233Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 100719/Z/12/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Our knowledge of ancient human population structure in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly prior to the advent of food production, remains limited. Here we report genome-wide DNA data from four children-two of whom were buried approximately 8,000 years ago and two 3,000 years ago-from Shum Laka (Cameroon), one of the earliest known archaeological sites within the probable homeland of the Bantu language group

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PhylogenyAllelesAnimalsArchaeologyBlack PeopleBurialCameroonChildChild, PreschoolChromosomes, Human, YDNA, AncientFeeding BehaviorFemaleGenetic MarkersGenetics, PopulationGenome, HumanDNA, AncientGenetic Markers

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PMID31969706
PMCPMC8386425

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