ReviewHuman molecular genetics2021
The deep population history in Africa.
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- Recovering the precolonial population structure of Khoe-San descendant populations.Science advances · 2026Article
- Advancing microbial ecology, microbiomes, and One Health in Africa: from regional initiatives to pan-African flagship programs.The ISME journal · 2026Article
- Recovering the pre-colonial population structure of Khoe-San descendant populations.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Identification of genomic variants associated with colorectal cancer heredity in indigenous populations of the Amazon.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- An ancient ecospecies of Helicobacter pylori.Nature · 2024Article
- Testing times: disentangling admixture histories in recent and complex demographies using ancient DNA.Genetics · 2024Article
- African bushpigs exhibit porous species boundaries and appeared in Madagascar concurrently with human arrival.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Hunter-gatherer genetics research: Importance and avenues.Evolutionary human sciences · 2024Article
- Testing Times: Challenges in Disentangling Admixture Histories in Recent and Complex Demographies.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Evolutionary Genetics and Admixture in African Populations.Genome biology and evolution · 2023Review
- Genomic perspectives on human dispersals during the Holocene.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
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Abstract
Africa is the continent with the greatest genetic diversity among humans and the level of diversity is further enhanced by incorporating non-majority groups, which are often understudied. Many of today's minority populations historically practiced foraging lifestyles, which were the only subsistence strategies prior to the rise of agriculture and pastoralism, but only a few groups practicing these strategies remain today. Genomic investigations of Holocene human remains excavated across the African continent show that the genetic landscape was vastly different compared to today's genetic landscape and that many groups that today are population isolate inhabited larger regions in the past. It is becoming clear that there are periods of isolation among groups and geographic areas, but also genetic contact over large distances throughout human history in Africa. Genomic information from minority populations and from prehistoric remains provide an invaluable source of information on the human past, in particular deep human population history, as Holocene large-scale population movements obscure past patterns of population structure. Here we revisit questions on the nature and time of the radiation of early humans in Africa, the extent of gene-flow among human populations as well as introgression from archaic and extinct lineages on the continent.
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