consensus on the large African effective population size compared to populations from other
continents. Based on sequencing of the mitochondrial Cytochrome C Oxidase subunit II (MT-
CO2), and genome wide microsatellite data we observe evidence suggesting the effective
size (Ne) of humans to be larger than the current estimates, with a foci of increased genetic
diversity in east Africa, and a population size of east Africans being at least 2-6 fold larger …