The African Neolithic: A genetic perspective

Project Information

AfricanNeo

Grant agreement ID: 759933

DOI

10.3030/759933

Project closed

EC signature date 30 October 2017

Start date 1 November 2017

End date 31 October 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 500 000,00

EU contribution

€ 1 500 000,00

Coordinated by

UPPSALA UNIVERSITET
Sweden

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (21)

Human adaptation to arsenic in Bolivians living in the Andes

Author(s): Jessica De Loma, Mario Vicente, Noemi Tirado, Franz Ascui, Marie Vahter, Jacques Gardon, Carina M. Schlebusch, KarinBroberg
Published in: Chemosphere, Issue 301, 2022, ISSN 0045-6535
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.134764

Later Stone Age human hair from Vaalkrans Shelter, Cape Floristic Region of South Africa, reveals genetic affinity to Khoe groups

Author(s): Alexandra Coutinho,Helena Malmström,Hanna Edlund,Christopher S. Henshilwood,Karen L. van Niekerk,Marlize Lombard,Carina M. Schlebusch,Mattias Jakobsson
Published in: American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Issue 174, 2021, Page(s) 701-713, ISSN 1096-8644
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24236

The Genetic Variation of Lactase Persistence Alleles in Sudan and South Sudan

Author(s): Nina Hollfelder, Hiba Babiker, Lena Granehäll, Carina M Schlebusch, Mattias Jakobsson
Published in: Genome Biology and Evolution, Issue 13, 2021, ISSN 1759-6653
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evab065

Population collapse in Congo rainforest from 400 CE urges reassessment of the Bantu Expansion.

Author(s): Dirk Seidensticker; Wannes Hubau; Wannes Hubau; Dirk Verschuren; Cesar Fortes-Lima; Pierre de Maret; Carina M. Schlebusch; Carina M. Schlebusch; Koen Bostoen
Published in: Science advances, 7 (7, Issue 9, 2021, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: AAAS
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd8352

Khoe-San Genomes Reveal Unique Variation and Confirm the Deepest Population Divergence in Homo sapiens

Author(s): Carina M Schlebusch, Per Sjödin, Gwenna Breton, Torsten Günther, Thijessen Naidoo, Nina Hollfelder, Agnes E Sjöstrand, Jingzi Xu, Lucie M Gattepaille, Mário Vicente, Douglas G Scofield, Helena Malmström, Michael de Jongh, Marlize Lombard, Himla Soodyall, Mattias Jakobsson
Published in: Molecular Biology and Evolution, Issue 37/10, 2020, Page(s) 2944-2954, ISSN 0737-4038
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msaa140

Revisiting the demographic history of Central African populations from a genetic perspective

Author(s): Gwenna Breton, Cesar Fortes-Lima, Carina M. Schlebusch
Published in: Human Population Genetics and Genomics, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 2770-5005
Publisher: Pivot Science Publications
DOI: 10.47248/hpgg2101010004

Genetic substructure and complex demographic history of South African Bantu speakers

Author(s): Dhriti Sengupta, Ananyo Choudhury, Cesar Fortes-Lima, Shaun Aron, Gavin Whitelaw, Koen Bostoen, Hilde Gunnink, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, Peter Delius, Stephen Tollman, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Shane Norris, Felistas Mashinya, Marianne Alberts, AWI-Gen Study, H3Africa Consortium, Scott Hazelhurst, Carina M. Schlebusch, Michèle Ramsay
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 12, 2021, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22207-y

Comparison of sequencing data processing pipelines and application to underrepresented African human populations

Author(s): Gwenna Breton, Anna C. V. Johansson, Per Sjödin, Carina M. Schlebusch & Mattias Jakobsson
Published in: BMC Bioinformatics, Issue 22, 2021, ISSN 1471-2105
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12859-021-04407-x

Demographic and Selection Histories of Populations Across the Sahel/Savannah Belt

Author(s): Cesar Fortes-Lima, Petr Tříska, Martina Čížková, Eliška Podgorná, Mame Yoro Diallo, Carina M Schlebusch, Viktor Černý
Published in: Molecular Biology and Evolution, Issue Vol 39 Issue 10, 2022, Page(s) msac209, ISSN 0737-4038
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msac209

Male-biased migration from East Africa introduced pastoralism into southern Africa

Author(s): Mário Vicente; Imke Lankheet; Thembi Russell; Nina Hollfelder; Vinet Coetzee; Himla Soodyall; Michael De Jongh; Carina M. Schlebusch
Published in: BMC Biology, Vol 19, Iss 1, Pp 1-16 (2021), Issue 19, 2021, ISSN 1741-7007
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12915-021-01193-z

Bantu-speaker migration and admixture in southern Africa

Author(s): Ananyo Choudhury; Dhriti Sengupta; Michèle Ramsay; Carina M. Schlebusch; Carina M. Schlebusch
Published in: Human Molecular Genetics, Issue 1, 2020, Page(s) R56–R63, ISSN 0964-6906
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddaa274

Sahelian pastoralism from the perspective of variants associated with lactase persistence

Author(s): Edita Priehodová, Frédéric Austerlitz, Martina Čížková, Jana Nováčková, François‐Xavier Ricaut, Zuzana Hofmanová, Carina M. Schlebusch, Viktor Černý
Published in: American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Issue 173/3, 2020, Page(s) 423-436, ISSN 0002-9483
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24116

Closing the Gaps in Genomic Research

Author(s): Cesar Fortes-Lima, Carina Schlebusch
Published in: Trends in Genetics, 2020, ISSN 0168-9525
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2020.11.005

Tales of Human Migration, Admixture, and Selection in Africa

Author(s): Carina M. Schlebusch, Mattias Jakobsson
Published in: Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, Issue 19/1, 2018, Page(s) 405-428, ISSN 1527-8204
Publisher: Annual Reviews, Inc.
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genom-083117-021759

Population history and genetic adaptation of the Fulani nomads: inferences from genome-wide data and the lactase persistence trait

Author(s): Mário Vicente, Edita Priehodová, Issa Diallo, Eliška Podgorná, Estella S. Poloni, Viktor Černý, Carina M. Schlebusch
Published in: BMC Genomics, Issue 20/1, 2019, ISSN 1471-2164
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-019-6296-7

African population history: an ancient DNA perspective

Author(s): Mário Vicente, Carina M Schlebusch
Published in: Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, Issue 62, 2020, Page(s) 8-15, ISSN 0959-437X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2020.05.008

Unraveling African diversity from a cross‐disciplinary perspective

Author(s): Cesar Fortes‐Lima, Ezekia Mtetwa, Carina Schlebusch
Published in: Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Issue 28/6, 2019, Page(s) 288-292, ISSN 1060-1538
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/evan.21801

Along the Indian Ocean Coast: Genomic Variation in Mozambique Provides New Insights into the Bantu Expansion

Author(s): Armando Semo, Magdalena Gayà-Vidal, Cesar Fortes-Lima, Bérénice Alard, Sandra Oliveira, João Almeida, António Prista, Albertino Damasceno, Anne-Maria Fehn, Carina Schlebusch, Jorge Rocha
Published in: Molecular Biology and Evolution, Issue 37/2, 2019, Page(s) 406-416, ISSN 0737-4038
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msz224

Genetic Affinities among Southern Africa Hunter-Gatherers and the Impact of Admixing Farmer and Herder Populations

Author(s): Mário Vicente, Mattias Jakobsson, Peter Ebbesen, Carina M Schlebusch
Published in: Molecular Biology and Evolution, Issue 36/9, 2019, Page(s) 1849-1861, ISSN 0737-4038
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msz089

Y-Chromosome Variation in Southern African Khoe-San Populations Based on Whole-Genome Sequences

Author(s): Thijessen Naidoo, Jingzi Xu, Mário Vicente, Helena Malmström, Himla Soodyall, Mattias Jakobsson, Carina M Schlebusch
Published in: Genome Biology and Evolution, Issue 12/7, 2020, Page(s) 1031-1039, ISSN 1759-6653
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evaa098

The performance of common SNP arrays in assigning African mitochondrial haplogroups

Author(s): Imke Lankheet, Mário Vicente, Chiara Barbieri & Carina Schlebusch
Published in: BMC Genomic Data, Issue 22, 2021, ISSN 2730-6844
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1186/s12863-021-01000-2

Monographic books (1)

Africa, the Cradle of Human Diversity

Author(s): Cesar Fortes-Lima, Ezekia Mtetwa, Carina Schlebusch (Editors)
Published in: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, Issue 26, 2021, ISBN 978-90-04-50022-8
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004500228

Book chapters (1)

Population migration and adaptation during the African Holocene: A genetic perspective

Author(s): Carina Schlebusch
Published in: Modern Human Origins and Dispersal, Issue 1, 2019, Page(s) 261-284, ISBN 978-3-935751-30-8
Publisher: Kerns Verlag