Genome-Wide Diversity in the Levant Reveals Recent Structuring by Culture

“…3) demonstrated the findings of another three patterns such as East Africa Zimbabwean allele frequency - II in population from India (South Asia), East Africa Ethiopian allele frequency - III in populations from Iran (South Asia) and Somalia (East Africa) and North Africa Egyptian allele frequency - IV in populations from Slovenia (Southern Europe), Czech Republic (Eastern Europe) and UK (Northern Europe) for GST M1-T1 null genotypes. The findings of Ethiopian - III and Egyptian - IV allele frequency pattern for GST M1-T1 null genotypes in this study are in concordance to the earlier reports of genome wide diversity study in the Levant by Haber et al, (2013), who found two major groups with one close to Africans and Middle Easterners and the other closer to modern day Europeans [61]. Further, the findings of these Zimbabwean, Ethiopian and Egyptian patterns from African populations with high genetic affinity towards non-African populations for GST M1-T1 null allele frequency have been reported as an “Out of Africa” split in this study in corroborate to the findings of Templeton (2002), who reported the out-of-Africa theory of migration and the ancestral root of allele frequency admixture [63].…”