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So many Nigerians: why is Nigeria overrepresented as the ancestral genetic homeland of Legacy African North Americans?

Abstract：

:The genetics of African North Americans are complex amalgamations of various West and Central African peoples with modest gene flow from specific European and Amerindian peoples. A comprehensive understanding of African North American biohistory is a prerequisite for accurate interpretations of the ancestral genetics of this population. Too often, genetic interpretations falter with ahistorical reconstructions. The recently reported overrepresentation of Nigerian lineages in African North Americans reflects pronounced limitations in the African genomic database, the artificiality of the colonial maps of Africa, the contributions of multiple African empires and kingdoms into the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans, and the overrepresentation of Yoruba peoples in the existing limited representation of West Africans in public genomic databases. This Matters Arising paper is in response to Micheletti et al. (2020), published in The American Journal of Human Genetics. See also the response by Micheletti et al. (2020), published in this issue.

journal_name

Am J Hum Genet

journal_title

American journal of human genetics

authors

Jackson FLC

doi

10.1016/j.ajhg.2020.10.010

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2021-01-07 00:00:00

pages

202-208

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1

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0002-9297

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1537-6605

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S0002-9297(20)30368-2

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108

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