Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
Comment
. 2010 Aug 24;107(34):E132; author reply E133.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1008007107. Epub 2010 Aug 3.

The Fulani are not from the Middle East

Comment

The Fulani are not from the Middle East

Clyde Winters. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
No abstract available

PubMed Disclaimer

Conflict of interest statement

The author declares no conflict of interest.

Figures

Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Frequencies of Y chromosome M-173 (R1b*) in Africa and Eurasia based on demographics in ref. .

Comment on

References

    1. Scheinfeldt LB, Soi S, Tishkoff SF. Working toward a synthesis of archaeological, linguistic, and genetic data for inferring African population history. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2010;107(Suppl 2):8931–8938. - PMC - PubMed
    1. Welmers WE. Niger-Congo Mande. Curr Trends Linguist. 1971;7:113–140.
    1. Rosa A, Ornelas C, Jobling MA, Brehm A, Villems R. Y-chromosomal diversity in the population of Guinea-Bissau: A multiethnic perspective. BMC Evol Biol. 2007;7:124. - PMC - PubMed
    1. Coia V, et al. Brief communication: mtDNA variation in North Cameroon: lack of Asian lineages and implications for back migration from Asia to sub-Saharan Africa. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2005;128:678–681. - PubMed
    1. Keita SO, Jackson FL, Borgelin LF, Magio KN. Letter to the editor: Commentary on the Fulani—History, genetics, and linguistics, an adjunct to Hassan et al., 2008. Am J Phys Anth. 2009;141:665–667. - PubMed

Substances

LinkOut - more resources