TY - JOUR
T1 - Genetic structure of chimpanzee populations
AU - Becquet, Celine
AU - Patterson, Nick
AU - Stone, Anne
AU - Przeworski, Molly
AU - Reich, David
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2007/4
Y1 - 2007/4
N2 - Little is known about the history and population structure of our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, in part because of an extremely poor fossil record. To address this, we report the largest genetic study of the chimpanzees to date, examining 310 microsatellites in 84 common chimpanzees and bonobos. We infer three common chimpanzee populations, which correspond to the previously defined labels of "western," "central," and "eastern," and find little evidence of gene flow between them. There is tentative evidence for structure within western chimpanzees, but we do not detect distinct additional populations. The data also provide historical insights, demonstrating that the western chimpanzee population diverged first, and that the eastern and central populations are more closely related in time.
AB - Little is known about the history and population structure of our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, in part because of an extremely poor fossil record. To address this, we report the largest genetic study of the chimpanzees to date, examining 310 microsatellites in 84 common chimpanzees and bonobos. We infer three common chimpanzee populations, which correspond to the previously defined labels of "western," "central," and "eastern," and find little evidence of gene flow between them. There is tentative evidence for structure within western chimpanzees, but we do not detect distinct additional populations. The data also provide historical insights, demonstrating that the western chimpanzee population diverged first, and that the eastern and central populations are more closely related in time.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pgen.0030066
DO - 10.1371/journal.pgen.0030066
M3 - Article
C2 - 17447846
AN - SCOPUS:34247638687
VL - 3
SP - 617
EP - 626
JO - PLoS Genetics
JF - PLoS Genetics
SN - 1553-7390
IS - 4
ER -