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The trans-Saharan slave trade - clues from interpolation analyses and high-resolution characterization of mitochondrial DNA lineages

BACKGROUND: A proportion of 1/4 to 1/2 of North African female pool is made of typical sub-Saharan lineages, in higher frequencies as geographic proximity to sub-Saharan Africa increases. The Sahara was a strong geographical barrier against gene flow, at least since 5,000 years ago, when desertifica...

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Autores principales: Harich, Nourdin, Costa, Marta D, Fernandes, Verónica, Kandil, Mostafa, Pereira, Joana B, Silva, Nuno M, Pereira, Luísa
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2875235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20459715
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-10-138