TY - JOUR AU - May, Andrew AU - Hazelhurst, Scott AU - Li, Yali AU - Norris, Shane A. AU - Govind, Nimmisha AU - Tikly, Mohammed AU - Hon, Claudia AU - Johnson, Keith J. AU - Hartmann, Nicole AU - Staedtler, Frank AU - Ramsay, Michèle PY - 2013 DA - 2013/09/23 TI - Genetic diversity in black South Africans from Soweto JO - BMC Genomics SP - 644 VL - 14 IS - 1 AB - Due to the unparalleled genetic diversity of its peoples, Africa is attracting growing research attention. Several African populations have been assessed in global initiatives such as the International HapMap and 1000 Genomes Projects. Notably excluded, however, is the southern Africa region, which is inhabited predominantly by southeastern Bantu-speakers, currently suffering under the dual burden of infectious and non-communicable diseases. Limited reference data for these individuals hampers medical research and prevents thorough understanding of the underlying population substructure. Here, we present the most detailed exploration, to date, of genetic diversity in 94 unrelated southeastern Bantu-speaking South Africans, resident in urban Soweto (Johannesburg). SN - 1471-2164 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-14-644 DO - 10.1186/1471-2164-14-644 ID - May2013 ER -