Download Ugandan Genetic variation abstract_9May2017

New Data on Human Genetic Variation and History in and around Uganda
The current distribution of human genetic variation in Central, Eastern, and
Southern Africa is largely the result of two major expansions that occurred within
the last few thousand years: the movement of Bantu speakers south and east from
the Nigeria-Cameroon border area and the movement of Nilo-Saharan speakers
south from the eastern Sahel. These two migrations halted each other in northcentral Uganda, with Nilo-Saharan speakers living north and east of the linguistic
boundary and Bantu speakers living south and west. In this talk, we will discuss
recent research on human genetic history in East Africa with new data from the
Bagishu, Benet, Ik, and Itesot in eastern and northeastern Uganda from ongoing
research. These new data will be placed into context with what is known from
previous genetic research and be related to what is known from the archaeological
and linguistic records.