Title:
Scientists say thousands of years ago West Africans migrated to east and southern Africa via Zambia
Author:
Zané Lombard, Principal Medical Scientist, Associate Professor, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Published:
Quartz Africa, 25 November 2020
From the article:
My colleagues and I, who are all members of the Human Heredity and Health (H3Africa) consortium, contributed to a landmark genetics study. This study focused on 426 individuals from 13 African countries. More than 50 different ethnolinguistic groups were represented in the study—one of the most diverse groups of Africans ever to be included in such an investigation. We sequenced the whole genome of each of these individuals—this means we could read every part of the genome to look for variation.