| Literature DB >> 16473309 |
A Hajjej1, S Hmida, H Kaabi, A Dridi, A Jridi, A El Gaa l ed, K Boukef.
Abstract
South Tunisian HLA gene profile has studied for the first time. HLA-A, -B, -DRB1 and -DQB1 allele frequencies of Ghannouch have been compared with those of neighboring populations, other Mediterraneans and Sub-Saharans. Their relatedness has been tested by genetic distances, Neighbor-Joining dendrograms and correspondence analyses. Our HLA data show that both southern from Ghannouch and northern Tunisians are of a Berber substratum in spite of the successive incursions (particularly, the 7th-8th century A.D. Arab invasion) occurred in Tunisia. It is also the case of other North Africans and Iberians. This present study confirms the relatedness of Greeks to Sub-Saharan populations. This suggests that there was an admixture between the Greeks and Sub-Saharans probably during Pharaonic period or after natural catastrophes (dryness) occurred in Sahara.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID： 16473309 DOI： 10.1016/j.ejmg.2005.01.001
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Eur J Med Genet ISSN： 1769-7212 Impact factor: 2.708