In the new study, Skoglund and team, including colleagues from South Africa, Malawi, Tanzania and Kenya, coaxed DNA from the remains of 15 ancient sub-Saharan Africans.

DNA analysis of the mummies ... did not show the expected Sub-Saharan genes. The Takarkori individuals are most closely related to other North African peoples who diverged from Sub-Saharan ...

This project aimed to look at the similarities and differences in genomes across Africa ... diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa. The African Genome Variation Project analysed the DNA of 1,800 people ...

I am ostensibly European, but both parents received West African-ancestry DNA results. I am 1.3 percent West African, which Doug McDonald of the University of Illinois verified as being of Yoruba ...

This genetic isolation, the authors of the study reasoned, suggested the region likely wasn’t a migration corridor that linked sub-Saharan Africa to ... with another. “DNA extracted from ...

All of her grandparents were California pioneers, and she carried around three per cent of sub-Saharan African DNA," he said. "We are all related." Genealogists can solve more mysteries if more ...