Advances in low-lactose/lactose-free dairy products and their production

A Li, J Zheng, X Han, S Yang, S Cheng, J Zhao… - Foods, 2023 - mdpi.com
With increasing health awareness worldwide, lactose intolerance has become a major
concern of consumers, creating new market opportunities for low-lactose/lactose-free dairy …

The evolutionary history of human skin pigmentation

J Rocha - Journal of molecular evolution, 2020 - Springer
Skin pigmentation is a complex, conspicuous, highly variable human trait that exhibits a
remarkable correlation with latitude. The evolutionary history and genetic basis of skin color …

APOL1 renal risk variants have contrasting resistance and susceptibility associations with African trypanosomiasis

A Cooper, H Ilboudo, VP Alibu, S Ravel, J Enyaru… - elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
Reduced susceptibility to infectious disease can increase the frequency of otherwise
deleterious alleles. In populations of African ancestry, two apolipoprotein-L1 (APOL1) …

Genome-wide variation in the Angolan Namib Desert reveals unique pre-Bantu ancestry

S Oliveira, AM Fehn, B Amorim, M Stoneking… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Ancient DNA studies reveal the genetic structure of Africa before the expansion of Bantu-
speaking agriculturalists; however, the impact of now extinct hunter-gatherer and herder …

Oral microbiome homogeneity across diverse human groups from southern Africa: first results from southwestern Angola and Zimbabwe

V Araújo, AM Fehn, A Phiri, J Wills, J Rocha… - BMC microbiology, 2023 - Springer
Background While the human oral microbiome is known to play an important role in systemic
health, its average composition and diversity patterns are still poorly understood. To gain …

[PDF][PDF] The linguistic and genetic landscape of southern Africa

AM Fehn, B Amorim, J Rocha - Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 2022 - pure.mpg.de
The present-day diversity of southern African populations was shaped by the confluence of
three major pre-historic settlement layers associated with distinct linguistic strata: i) an early …

Matriclans shape populations: Insights from the Angolan Namib Desert into the maternal genetic history of southern Africa

S Oliveira, AM Fehn, T Aço, F Lages… - American Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Objectives Southern Angola is a poorly studied region, inhabited by populations
that have been associated with different migratory movements into southern Africa. Apart …

The genomic prehistory of peoples speaking Khoisan languages

B Pakendorf, M Stoneking - Human Molecular Genetics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Peoples speaking so-called Khoisan languages—that is, indigenous languages of southern
Africa that do not belong to the Bantu family—are culturally and linguistically diverse. They …

The role of matrilineality in shaping patterns of Y chromosome and mtDNA sequence variation in southwestern Angola

S Oliveira, A Hübner, AM Fehn, T Aço… - European Journal of …, 2019 - nature.com
Southwestern Angola is a region characterized by contact between indigenous foragers and
incoming food-producers, involving genetic and cultural exchanges between peoples …

Creole languages and genes: The case of São Tomé and Príncipe

T Hagemeijer, J Rocha - Faits de Langues, 2019 - brill.com
This article focuses on the gene-language connection between the Portuguese-related Gulf
of Guinea creole-speaking populations in São Tomé and Príncipe. The Gulf of Guinea …