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ABSTRACT:
PROVIDER: EGAO00000001021 | EGA |
REPOSITORIES: EGA
Publications
Genome-wide Ancestry and Demographic History of African-Descendant Maroon Communities from French Guiana and Suriname.
American journal of human genetics 20171101 5
The transatlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration in world history. However, the origins of the enslaved Africans and their admixture dynamics remain unclear. To investigate the demographic history of African-descendant Marron populations, we generated genome-wide data (4.3 million markers) from 107 individuals from three African-descendant populations in South America, as well as 124 individuals from six west African populations. Throughout the Americas, thousands of enslaved Afric ...[more]
