Genome-wide Ancestry and Demographic History of African-Descendant Maroon Communities from French Guiana and Surname.

The transatlantic slave trade (TAST) was the largest forced migration in world history. However, the origins of the enslaved Africans and their admixture dynamics remain unclear. To investigate the demographic history of African-descendant Marron populations, we generated genome-wide SNP data (4.3 million markers) from 107 individuals from three African-descendant populations in South America, as well as 124 individuals from six west African populations to complement underrepresented African data sets. Our study sheds additional light on the demographic consequences of the TAST and illustrates how genetic data can complement historical sources.

Type: Other
Archiver: European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA)

1 Dataset 1 Publication

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Dataset ID	Description	Technology	Samples
EGAD00010001283	Illumina HumanOmni5-Quad BeadChips	Illumina	229

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Genome-wide Ancestry and Demographic History of African-Descendant Maroon Communities from French Guiana and Suriname. Fortes-Lima C, Fortes-Lima C, Gessain A, Ruiz-Linares A, Bortolini MC, Migot-Nabias F, Bellis G, Moreno-Mayar JV, Restrepo BN, Rojas W, Avendaño-Tamayo E, Bedoya G, Orlando L, Salas A, Helgason A, Gilbert MTP, Sikora M, Schroeder H, Dugoujon JM. Am J Hum Genet 101: 2017 725-736	27

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Citations

Genome-wide Ancestry and Demographic History of African-Descendant Maroon Communities from French Guiana and Suriname.
Fortes-Lima C, Fortes-Lima C, Gessain A, Ruiz-Linares A, Bortolini MC, Migot-Nabias F, Bellis G, Moreno-Mayar JV, Restrepo BN, Rojas W, Avendaño-Tamayo E, Bedoya G, Orlando L, Salas A, Helgason A, Gilbert MTP, Sikora M, Schroeder H, Dugoujon JM. Am J Hum Genet 101: 2017 725-736