{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Breton G"],"funding":["Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council)"],"pagination":["7307"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11344834"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["15(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Sub-equatorial Africa is today inhabited predominantly by Bantu-speaking groups of Western African descent who brought agriculture to the Luangwa valley in eastern Zambia ~2000 years ago. Before their arrival the area was inhabited by hunter-gatherers, who in many cases were subsequently replaced, displaced or assimilated. In Zambia, we know little about the genetic affinities of these hunter-gatherers. We examine ancestry of two isolated communities in Zambia, known as BaTwa and possible descendants of recent hunter-gatherers. We genotype over two million genome-wide SNPs from two BaTwa populations (total of 80 individuals) and from three comparative farming populations to: (i) determine if the BaTwa carry genetic links to past hunter-gatherer-groups, and (ii) characterise the genetic aff"],"journal":["Nature communications"],"pubmed_title":["BaTwa populations from Zambia retain ancestry of past hunter-gatherer groups."],"pmcid":["PMC11344834"],"funding_grant_id":["2018-05537","2022-04642"],"pubmed_authors":["Soodyall H","Breton G","Barham L","Jakobsson M","Schlebusch CM","Mudenda G"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"BaTwa populations from Zambia retain ancestry of past hunter-gatherer groups.","description":"Sub-equatorial Africa is today inhabited predominantly by Bantu-speaking groups of Western African descent who brought agriculture to the Luangwa valley in eastern Zambia ~2000 years ago. Before their arrival the area was inhabited by hunter-gatherers, who in many cases were subsequently replaced, displaced or assimilated. In Zambia, we know little about the genetic affinities of these hunter-gatherers. We examine ancestry of two isolated communities in Zambia, known as BaTwa and possible descendants of recent hunter-gatherers. We genotype over two million genome-wide SNPs from two BaTwa populations (total of 80 individuals) and from three comparative farming populations to: (i) determine if the BaTwa carry genetic links to past hunter-gatherer-groups, and (ii) characterise the genetic aff","dates":{"release":"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2024 Aug","modification":"2025-04-18T16:52:26.873Z","creation":"2025-04-07T04:18:00.263Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC11344834","cross_references":{"pubmed":["39181874"],"doi":["10.1038/s41467-024-50733-y"]}}