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Comparative Study
. 1991 Feb 15;88(4):1403-6.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.88.4.1403.

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

J Rapacz  1 , L Chen, E Butler-Brunner, M J Wu, J O Hasler-Rapacz, R Butler, V N Schumaker
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Comparative Study

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

J Rapacz et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .

Abstract

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.

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