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. 1990 Feb;46(2):383–392.

Interethnic genetic differentiation: GM polymorphism in eastern Senegal.

M Blanc 1, A Sanchez-Mazas 1, N H Van Blyenburgh 1, A Sevin 1, G Pison 1, A Langaney 1
PMCID: PMC1684972  PMID: 2105642

Abstract

Analysis of GM polymorphism has been performed on 1,806 individuals representing three sympatric ethnic groups--Bedik, Fulani, and Mandenkalu--of eastern Senegal. Haplotype frequencies estimated by maximum likelihood have been used to compute common genetic pools between the three samples and a number of other sub-Saharan African populations. Despite extreme linguistic and sociocultural differentiations and very high levels of endogamy, especially in the Bedik and Niokholo Mandenkalu, the three populations share about 90%-95% of their haplotype frequencies in a system which commonly provides strong genetic differentiations. This supports the view that, despite its importance at a large continental scale level, as it is discussed for a set of populations from many regions of sub-Saharan Africa, sociocultural differentiation usually has little effect on local genetic diversity.

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