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Veeramah KR, Zeitlyn D, Fanso VG, et al. Sex-Specific Genetic Data Support One of Two Alternative Versions of the Foundation of the Ruling Dynasty of the Nso' in Cameroon. Curr Anthropol. 2008;49(4):707-714doi: 10.1086/590119.
Veeramah, K. R., Zeitlyn, D., Fanso, V. G., Mendell, N. R., Connell, B. A., Weale, M. E., Bradman, N., & Thomas, M. G. (2008). Sex-Specific Genetic Data Support One of Two Alternative Versions of the Foundation of the Ruling Dynasty of the Nso' in Cameroon. Current anthropology, 49(4), 707-714. https://doi.org/10.1086/590119
Veeramah, Krishna R, et al. "Sex-Specific Genetic Data Support One of Two Alternative Versions of the Foundation of the Ruling Dynasty of the Nso' in Cameroon." Current anthropology vol. 49,4 (2008): 707-714. doi: https://doi.org/10.1086/590119
Veeramah KR, Zeitlyn D, Fanso VG, Mendell NR, Connell BA, Weale ME, Bradman N, Thomas MG. Sex-Specific Genetic Data Support One of Two Alternative Versions of the Foundation of the Ruling Dynasty of the Nso' in Cameroon. Curr Anthropol. 2008 Aug;49(4):707-714. doi: 10.1086/590119. PMID: 19081799; PMCID: PMC2600431.
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Curr Anthropol. 2008 Aug;49(4):707-714. doi: 10.1086/590119.

Sex-Specific Genetic Data Support One of Two Alternative Versions of the Foundation of the Ruling Dynasty of the Nso' in Cameroon.

Current anthropology

Krishna R Veeramah, David Zeitlyn, Verkijika G Fanso, Nancy R Mendell, Bruce A Connell, Michael E Weale, Neil Bradman, Mark G Thomas

Affiliations

  1. The Centre for Genetic Anthropology, Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK (Veeramah, Bradman)/Department of Anthropology, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NR, UK ( [email protected] ) (Zeitlyn)/Department of History, University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon (Fanso)/Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, U.S.A. (Mendell)/Centre for Research on Language Contact, Glendon College, York University, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3N6, Canada (Connell)/Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, King's College London, Guy's Tower, Guy's Hospital, London SE1 9RT, UK (Weale)/Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK (Thomas). 21 III 08.

PMID: 19081799 PMCID: PMC2600431 DOI: 10.1086/590119

Abstract

Sex-specific genetic data favor a specific variant of the oral history of the kingdom of Nso' (a Grassfields city-state in Cameroon) in which the royal family traces its descent from a founding ancestress who married into an autochthonous hunter-gatherer group. The distributions of Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA variation in the Nso' in general and in the ruling dynasty in particular are consistent with specific Nso' marriage practices, suggesting strict conservation of the royal social class along agnatic lines. This study demonstrates the efficacy of using genetics to augment other sources of information (e.g., oral histories, archaeology, and linguistics) when seeking to recover the histories of African peoples.

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