Nature Communications (Apr 2021)
Genetic substructure and complex demographic history of South African Bantu speakers
- Dhriti Sengupta,
- Ananyo Choudhury,
- Cesar Fortes-Lima,
- Shaun Aron,
- Gavin Whitelaw,
- Koen Bostoen,
- Hilde Gunnink,
- Natalia Chousou-Polydouri,
- Peter Delius,
- Stephen Tollman,
- F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé,
- Shane Norris,
- Felistas Mashinya,
- Marianne Alberts,
- AWI-Gen Study,
- H3Africa Consortium,
- Scott Hazelhurst,
- Carina M. Schlebusch,
- Michèle Ramsay
Affiliations
- Dhriti Sengupta
- Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
- Ananyo Choudhury
- Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
- Cesar Fortes-Lima
- Human Evolution, Department of Organismal Biology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University
- Shaun Aron
- Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
- Gavin Whitelaw
- KwaZulu-Natal Museum
- Koen Bostoen
- UGent Centre for Bantu Studies, Department of Languages and Cultures, Ghent University
- Hilde Gunnink
- UGent Centre for Bantu Studies, Department of Languages and Cultures, Ghent University
- Natalia Chousou-Polydouri
- Department of Comparative Linguistic Science and Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zürich
- Peter Delius
- Department of History, University of the Witwatersrand
- Stephen Tollman
- MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
- F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé
- MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
- Shane Norris
- MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
- Felistas Mashinya
- Department of Pathology and Medical Sciences; School of Health Care Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Limpopo
- Marianne Alberts
- Department of Pathology and Medical Sciences; School of Health Care Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Limpopo
- AWI-Gen Study
- H3Africa Consortium
- Scott Hazelhurst
- Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
- Carina M. Schlebusch
- Human Evolution, Department of Organismal Biology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University
- Michèle Ramsay
- Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22207-y
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 13
Abstract
Despite linguistic and geographic diversity in South Eastern Bantu-speaking (SEB) groups of South Africa, genetic variation in these groups has not been investigated in depth. Here, the authors analyse genome-wide data from 5056 individuals, providing insights into demographic history across SEB groups.
