Mitochondrial portrait of the Cabo Verde archipelago: the Senegambian outpost of Atlantic slave trade

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2002

Authors

Brehm, A (Author) Other; Pereira, L (Author) Other; Bandelt, HJ (Author) Other; Prata, MJ (Author) FCUP; Amorim, A (Author) FCUP

Journal

Title: Annals of Human Genetics

Vol. 66

Pages: 49-60

ISSN: 0003-4800

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Scientific classification

FOS: Natural sciences > Earth and related Environmental sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-000-QVE

DOI: 10.1017/s0003480001001002

Abstract (EN): In order to study the matrilineal genetic composition in Cabo Verde (Republic of Cape Verde), all archipelago that used to serve as a Portuguese entrepot of the Atlantic slave trade, we have analysed a total of 293 mtDNAs sampled from the seven inhabitated islands for the hypervariable segment I (HVS-I) and some characteristic RFLPs of the coding regions. The different settlement, history of the northwestern group of the islands is well reflected in the mtDNA pool. The total Cabo Verde sample clearly displays the characteristic mitochondrial features of the Atlantic fringe of western Africa and testifies to almost no mitochondrial input from the Portuguese colonizers.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 12