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Tanzania
Tuesday 15 May 2007
Eastern Africa
Tanzanians have high genetic diversity and possess ancient mtDNA haplogroups, some of which are either rare (L0d and L5) or absent (L0f) in other regions of Africa. A large and diverse human population could have persisted in eastern Africa and that eastern Africa may have been an ancient source of dispersion of modern humans both within and outside of Africa.
See also
mtDNA sequence variation
Africans
Pygmies
Mandenkalu
Wolof
Pular
References
Gonder MK, Mortensen HM, Reed FA, de Sousa A, Tishkoff SA. Whole-mtDNA genome sequence analysis of ancient African lineages. Mol Biol Evol. 2007 Mar;24(3):757-68. PMID: 17194802
