Genome-Wide SNP Analysis of Southern African Populations Provides New Insights into the Dispersal of Bantu-Speaking Groups

• Published in: Genome biology and evolution Vol. 7; no. 9; pp. 2560 - 2568
• Main Authors: González-Santos, Miguel, Montinaro, Francesco, Oosthuizen, Ockie, Oosthuizen, Erica, Busby, George B.J., Anagnostou, Paolo, Destro-Bisol, Giovanni, Pascali, Vincenzo, Capelli, Cristian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford University Press 01.09.2015
• Subjects: Africa South of the Sahara; Gene Flow; Genes; Genome-Wide Association Study; Genomes; Human Migration; Humans; Language; Letter; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; Africa South of the Sahara; admixture; genome-wide SNPs; Southern Africa; Bantu speakers

The expansion of Bantu-speaking agropastoralist populations had a great impact on the genetic, linguistic, and cultural variation of sub-Saharan Africa. It is generally accepted that Bantu languages originated in an area around the present border between Cameroon and Nigeria approximately 5,000 year...