Revised timeline and distribution of the earliest diverged human maternal lineages in southern Africa.

Revised timeline and distribution of the earliest diverged human maternal lineages in southern Africa.

The oldest extant human maternal lineages include mitochondrial haplogroups L0d and L0k found in the southern African click-speaking forager peoples broadly classified as Khoesan. Profiling these early mitochondrial lineages allows for better understanding of modern human evolution. In this study, w...

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Main Authors: Eva K F Chan, Rae-Anne Hardie, Desiree C Petersen, Karen Beeson, Riana M S Bornman, Andrew B Smith, Vanessa M Hayes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4373779?pdf=render

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