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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Immunol Rev. 2015 Sep;267(1):259–282. doi: 10.1111/imr.12326

Figure 14. The genetic diversity of human populations is inversely correlated with the distance of their place of origin from East Africa.

Figure 14

This diagram shows the genetic diversity assessed from neutral markers of anthropologically well-characterized human populations worldwide. Each bar represents one population and the colors denote their geographical regions of origin. Africans; orange, European/Middle Eastern; blue, Indian; red, East Asian; pink, Oceanian (O); green, and Native American (NA); purple. Adapted with permission from Dr. Sarah Tishkoff from Fig. S2 in Tishkoff SA, et al. The genetic structure and history of Africans and African Americans. Science. (2009) 324:1035-1044 (136). Reprinted with permission from AAAS.