Collection of Genotypic and Ethnographic Information from Individuals of South African Ethnic Groups

The hunter-gatherers and pastoralists of South Africa retain the highest genetic diversity of any population. Genetic determinants of light skin pigmentation, reduced stature etc and other basic biomedical phenotypes are unique to samples with Southern African hunter-gatherer and pastoralist ancestry or retain ancestral haplotypes not found in other populations.

Type: Other
Archiver: European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA)

1 Dataset 2 Publications

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Dataset ID	Description	Technology	Samples
EGAD00001006198	Whole genome sequencing data of 84 Nama individuals with KhoeSan ancestry from southern Africa in phased VCF format. Variants were called/phased as part of the African Genome Resource. The data has been aligned to GRCh37.		84

Publications	Citations
The recombination landscape of the Khoe-San likely represents the upper limits of recombination divergence in humans. van Eeden G, Uren C, Pless E, Mastoras M, van der Spuy GD, Tromp G, Henn BM, Möller M. Genome Biol 23: 2022 172	4
A weakly structured stem for human origins in Africa. Ragsdale AP, Weaver TD, Atkinson EG, Hoal EG, Möller M, Henn BM, Gravel S. Nature 617: 2023 755-763	20