The Bantu expansion - genetic inferences

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Dnr:

NAISS 2024/22-616

Type:

NAISS Small Compute

Principal Investigator:

Cesar Fortes-Lima

Affiliation:

Uppsala universitet

Start Date:

2024-05-02

End Date:

2025-02-01

Primary Classification:

10615: Evolutionary Biology

Webpage:

http://www.iob.uu.se/research/human-evolution/schlebusch/

Allocation

Klemming at PDC: 500 GiB
Crex 1 at UPPMAX: 128 GiB
Dardel at PDC: 2 x 1000 core-h/month
Rackham at UPPMAX: 2 x 1000 core-h/month

Abstract

This project focuses on studying gene flow and population movement related to the expansion of Bantu-speakers from West Africa across sub-Sahara Africa. We plan to analyze SNP chip data to investigate the admixture and migration histories of Bantu-speakers across sub-Sahara Africa.