The quest to explain demographic history during the early part of human evolution has been
limited because of the scarce paleoanthropological record from the Middle Stone Age. To …

… 1991; Stoneking et al. 1992; Soodyall 1993) determine 393 bp of the … H. 1977. Distribution
of two randomly chosen cistrons in a … Soodyall, H. 1993. Mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms in …

Southern Africa is consistently placed as a potential region for the evolution of Homo sapiens.
We present genome sequences, up to 13x coverage, from seven ancient individuals from …

… In the 50 Yakuts for whom the L-strand was obtained previously, the H-strand was also
sequenced in this manner with H16401. In the 50 Buryat samples collected in 1991, HV1 was …

The history of click-speaking Khoe-San, and African populations in general, remains poorly
understood. We genotyped ∼2.3 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms in 220 southern …

… over millions of years, we find that the coalescent for all H. pylori plus its closest relative … of
the most ancient H. pylori populations, but until now San have not been screened for H. pylori …

The use of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) continues to dominate studies of human genetic
variation and evolution. Recent work has re-affirmed the strict maternal inheritance of mtDNA, …

… h. The Americas represent the only region that exhibits the first pattern of concordantly low p
and low h … 1 ), while the low h value is due to the fact that 57% of the Native Americans in our …

Alu insertion polymorphisms (polymorphisms consisting of the presence/absence of an Alu
element at a particular chromosomal location) offer several advantages over other nuclear …

Variants of different Class I alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) genes have been shown to be
associated with an effect that is protective against alcoholism. Previous work from our …