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. 2023 Oct 5;110(10):1825. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2023.09.007

The ancestry and geographical origins of St Helena’s liberated Africans

Marcela Sandoval-Velasco , Anuradha Jagadeesan, Jazmín Ramos-Madrigal, María C Ávila-Arcos, Cesar A Fortes-Lima, Judy Watson, Erna Johannesdóttir, Diana I Cruz-Dávalos, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, J Víctor Moreno-Mayar, Jonas Niemann, Gabriel Renaud, Katharine A Robson Brown, Helena Bennett, Andrew Pearson, Agnar Helgason, M Thomas P Gilbert, Hannes Schroeder ∗∗
PMCID: PMC10577070  PMID: 37802045

(The American Journal of Human Genetics 110, 1590–1599; September 7, 2023)

For transparency, the authors decided to publish the original sampling permit with the article. To this end, the following sentence has been added to the “materials and methods” section in the manuscript online: “Sampling was carried out with permission from the government of St. Helena and approval from the St. Helena National Trust and the Museum of St. Helena (see supplemental information).” The permit has been added to the supplemental information.

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Marcela Sandoval-Velasco, Email: sandoval-velascom@si.edu.

Hannes Schroeder, Email: hschroeder@sund.ku.dk.


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