The Genomic Legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Yungas Valley of Bolivia

During the period of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (TAST) some enslaved Africans were forced to move to Upper Peru (nowadays Bolivia). At first they were sent to Potosí, but later to the tropical Yungas valley where the Spanish colonizers established a so-called "hacienda system" that was...

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Published in:PloS one 2015-08, Vol.10 (8), p.e0134129
Main Authors: Heinz, Tanja, Cárdenas, Jorge Mario, Álvarez-Iglesias, Vanesa, Pardo-Seco, Jacobo, Gómez-Carballa, Alberto, Santos, Carla, Taboada-Echalar, Patricia, Martinón-Torres, Federico, Salas, Antonio
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
17th century
African Continental Ancestry Group - genetics
Bolivia
Chromosomes, Human, Y
Deoxyribonucleic acid
DNA
DNA, Mitochondrial - genetics
Female
Genetic Variation
Genetics, Population
Genome, Mitochondrial
Genomes
Genomics - methods
Haplotypes
Humans
INDEL Mutation
International trade
Male
Minority & ethnic groups
Mitochondrial DNA
Molecular Sequence Annotation
Nucleotide sequence
Pediatrics
Phylogeny
Phylogeography
Population
Population genetics
Population studies
Sex Factors
Single-nucleotide polymorphism
Slave trade
Slavery
Slaves
Trade
Y chromosomes
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