60, 000 years of interactions between Central and Eastern Africa documented by major African mitochondrial haplogroup L2
Sci. rep. (Nat. Publ. Group); 5 (12526), 2015
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup L2 originated in Western Africa but is nowadays spread across the entire continent. L2 movements were previously postulated to be related to the Bantu expansion, but L2 expansions eastwards probably occurred much earlier. By reconstructing the phylogeny of L2 (44 new ...