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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Timing of a back-migration into Africa

A OlivieriA AchilliM PalaV BattagliaS FornarinoN Al ZaheryRosaria ScozzariFulvio CrucianiDm BeharJ. M. DugoujonC Coudray Santachiara Benerecetti AsO SeminoH. J. BandeltA. Torroni

subject

MultidisciplinaryMiddle EastGeographyEthnologyIndigenousDNA Mitochondrial Population human mitochondrial

description

Indigenous North Africans are genetically quite distinct from sub-Saharan Africans ([1][1]), and this difference is reflected in their lighter skin and European/Middle Eastern physical features. We have previously suggested, on the basis of the distribution of mtDNA type M1, that North Africans are

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2007-04-06
10.1126/science.316.5821.50http://hdl.handle.net/10447/15940