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Southern African Genome Diversity Study

Southern African Complete Personal Genomes

ABT — Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Identifier

ABT
Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Gender

Male

Country

South Africa

Heritage

Southern Bantu
amaXhosa (paternal)
Motswana (maternal)

Date of Birth

7 October 1931

Disease survival

Poliomyelitis (Ploio)
Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB)
Prostate Cancer

Complete genome

Schuster SC, Miller W, et al.
Complete Khoisan and Bantu genomes from southern Africa.
Nature. 2010 Feb 18;463(7283):943-7. doi: 10.1038/nature08795.

Data: SOLiD3.0 (30x coverage) available on Galaxy located at Penn State University

MT-genome

Haplogroup L0d2
Maternal Khoesan ancestral heritage
ABT_MTgenome_Sequence

Y-chromosome

Haplogroup E1b1a8a
Paternal West-central African ancestral heritage

Genotypes

Illumina 1M Duo Data
ABT_Illumina1MDuo_Genotypes

 

Ancestral fractions ABT

Fig.1. Ancestral fractions ABT
Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

KB1 — !Gubi

Identifier

KB1
!Gubi

Gender

Male

Country

Namibia

Heritage

Tuu-speaker
Bushman

Date of Birth

Unknown — Estimated > 80 years

Disease survival

None reported

Complete genome

Schuster SC, Miller W, et al.
Complete Khoisan and Bantu genomes from southern Africa.
Nature. 2010 Feb 18;463(7283):943-7. doi: 10.1038/nature08795.

Data: Roche/454 GS FLX (10.2x coverage) available on Galaxy located at Penn State University

MT-genome

Haplogroup L0d1b
KB1_MTgenome_Sequence

Y-chromosome

Haplogroup B2

Genotypes

Illumina 1M Duo Data
KB1_Illumina1MDuo_Genotypes

Divergence time estimation

157-108K ybp
Gonau et al., Nature Genetics, 2011

 

Ancestral fractions KB1

Fig.2. Ancestral fractions KB1
!Gubi. Photo courtesy Chris Bennett.