Identification of the ancestral haplotype for apolipoprotein B suggests an African origin of Homo sapiens sapiens and traces their subsequent migration to Europe and the Pacific

Journal Article · Fri Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 1991 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.88.4.1403· OSTI ID:6144934

Rapacz, J; Hasler-Rapacz, J O ^[1]; Chen, L; Wu, Mingjiuan; Schumaker, V N ^[2]; Butler-Brunner, E; Butler, R ^[3]

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1. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison (United States)
2. Univ. of California, Los Angeles (United States)
3. Swiss Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service, Bern (Switzerland)

The probable ancestral haplotype for human apolipoprotein B (apoB) has been identified through immunological analysis of chimpanzee and gorilla serum and sequence analysis of their DNA. Moreover, the frequency of this ancestral apoB haplotype among different human populations provides strong support for the African origin of Homo sapiens sapiens and their subsequent migration from Africa to Europe and to the Pacific. The approach used here for the identification of the ancestral human apoB haplotype is likely to be applicable to many other genes.

• OSTI ID: 6144934
• Journal Information: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; (United States), Vol. 88:4; ISSN 0027-8424
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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