{"id":3042,"date":"2024-09-11T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/?p=3042"},"modified":"2025-09-11T11:53:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T09:53:35","slug":"batwa-populations-from-zambia-retain-ancestry-of-past-hunter-gatherer-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/2024\/09\/11\/batwa-populations-from-zambia-retain-ancestry-of-past-hunter-gatherer-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"BaTwa populations from Zambia retain ancestry of past hunter-gatherer groups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"385\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IEG-Jakobsson-12-e1741703777508.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1337\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gwenna Breton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p>Another paper co-authored by people from the Jakobsson Lab has been published in Nature: Breton, G., Barham, L., Mudenda, G., Soodyall, H., Schlebusch, C. M., &amp; Jakobsson, M. (2024). BaTwa populations from Zambia retain ancestry of past hunter-gatherer groups.\u00a0<em>Nature communications<\/em>,\u00a0<em>15<\/em>(1), 7307. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-024-50733-y\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-024-50733-y<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Abs1\">Abstract<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Sub-equatorial Africa is today inhabited predominantly by Bantu-speaking groups of Western African descent who brought agriculture to the Luangwa valley in eastern Zambia&nbsp;~2000 years ago. Before their arrival the area was inhabited by hunter-gatherers, who in many cases were subsequently replaced, displaced or assimilated. In Zambia, we know little about the genetic affinities of these hunter-gatherers. We examine ancestry of two isolated communities in Zambia, known as BaTwa and possible descendants of recent hunter-gatherers. We genotype over two million genome-wide SNPs from two BaTwa populations (total of 80 individuals) and from three comparative farming populations to: (i) determine if the BaTwa carry genetic links to past hunter-gatherer-groups, and (ii) characterise the genetic affinities of past Zambian hunter-gatherer-groups. The BaTwa populations do harbour a hunter-gatherer-like genetic ancestry and Western African ancestry. The hunter-gatherer component is a unique local signature, intermediate between current-day Khoe-San ancestry from southern Africa and central African rainforest hunter-gatherer ancestry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another paper co-authored by people from the Jakobsson Lab has been published in Nature: Breton, G., Barham, L., Mudenda, G., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,11],"tags":[14,81,56,195,46,36,123,67,196],"class_list":["post-3042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","category-research","tag-africa","tag-ancestry","tag-ancient-dna","tag-bantu","tag-genomics","tag-human-past","tag-hunter-gatherers","tag-population","tag-zambia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3043,"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions\/3043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}