Interested members may want to critique them on non-L haplogroups in particular.
Manu Member # 18974
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It would have been nice if data from South Sudan was included. A large and important region of Africa that keeps getting ignored by geneticists.
alTakruri Member # 10195
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Yes.
And Nilo-Saharans in general are sorely underbiased in the above report.
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Another recent study Pedro Soares et al The Expansion of mtDNA Haplogroup L3 within and out of Africa Mol Biol Evol (2011), Oxford University Press
quote:Originally posted by alTakruri: Another recent study Pedro Soares et al The Expansion of mtDNA Haplogroup L3 within and out of Africa Mol Biol Evol (2011), Oxford University Press
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^^^ So the 3rd Image on page 12 best represents your Origins??
-Just Call Me Jari- Member # 14451
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quote:Finally, the non-random sub-Saharan spread of North African lineages was likely mediated by the ancestors of Fulani, nomadic pastoral communities in the Sahel.
^^^^ What exactly are they saying here, can anyone clue me in??
Tukuler Member # 19944
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quote:Originally posted by -Just Call Me Jari-:
quote:Finally, the non-random sub-Saharan spread of North African lineages was likely mediated by the ancestors of Fulani, nomadic pastoral communities in the Sahel.
^^^^ What exactly are they saying here, can anyone clue me in??
I take it they're meaning N African females did not cohabit with SSA males. SSA females with N AFR lineages got them thousands of years ago from ancestral Fulani females back in the Green Sahara but not any more recent than that.
Henn is determined that Fulani are of 40 - 50% North African heritage despite their language and habitat. She simplified their origins per the linkage disequilibrium figures of her 2011 PNAS article. Rosa&Brehm appear to be following Henn despite their own Fig.4 on page 19 clearly showing a distinct Fulani cluster adjacent to West Africans and removed from North Africans.
Though the abstract speaks to North African lineages in the plural, the text only gives one particular lineage U5b1b.
Whatever the hoopla about the non-existance of race population geneticists are retaining the Caucasian category and its subsidiary caucasoid. Since Fulani purportedly display caucasoid phenotypic features genetic studies insinuate Caucasian origins for Fulani. Some reports use highly ambiguous language to camouflage this bias but their intentions are plain.
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