Human Genomic Diversity and Disease Research Unit

Publications

Soodyall, H., Vigilant, L., Hill, A. V., Stoneking, M., and  Jenkins, T. (1996b). Mitochondrial DNA control region  sequence variation suggests multiple independent origins of  an "Asian-specific" 9-bp deletion in sub-Saharan Africans.  American Journal of Human Genetics, 58:595-608.

Roberts, D.F. and Soodyall, H. (1996). Population ancestry on  Tristan da Cunha - the evidence of the individual. In: Molecular biology and human diversity, ed. A.J. Boyce  and C.G.N. Mascie-Taylor, pp. 196-204. Cambridge University  Press.

Stoneking, M. and Soodyall, H. (1996).  Human evolution and the mitochondrial genome. Current Opinion in Genetics and Development, 6: 731-736.

Melton, T., Ginther, C., Sensabaugh, G., Soodyall, H., and  Stoneking, M. (1997). Extent of heterogeneity in mitochondrial DNA  of sub-Saharan African populations. Journal of Forensic Science, 42:582-592.

Soodyall, H., Jenkins, T., Mukherjee, A., du Toit, E., Roberts, D.F., and Stoneking, M (1997). The founding mitochondrial DNA lineages of Tristan da Cunha Islanders. American  Journal of Physical Anthropology, 104: 157-166.

Stoneking, M., Fontius, J.F., Clifford, S.L., Soodyall, H., Arcot, S.S., Saha, N., Jenkins, T., Tahir, M.A., Deininger, P.L., and Batzer, M.A (1997). ALU insertion  polymorphisms and human evolution: evidence for a larger population size in Africa. Genome Research, 7:1061-1071.

Jazin, E., Soodyall, H., Jalonen, P., Lindholm, E., Stoneking, M., Gyllensten, U. (1998). Mitochondrial mutation rate revisited: hot spots and polymorphism. Nature Genetics, Feb,18(2):109-110.

Soodyall, H. and Jenkins, T. (1998).  Khoisan prehistory: the evidence of the genes. Proceedings of the Khoisan Identities & Cultural Heritage Conference - Cape Town July 1997, ed. A. Bank, H. Heese, and C. Loff, Institute For Historical Research, University of the Western Cape.

Raath, M.A., Soodyall, H., Barkhan, D., Kuykendall, K.L. and Tobias, P.V. (1998). Abstacts of Contributions to the Dual Congress, 28 June - 4 July 1998, Sun City, South Africa

Deininger, P.L., Sherry, S.T., Risch, G., Chadwick, D., Robichaux, M.B., Soodyall, H., Jenkins, T., Sheen, F., Swergold, G., Stoneking, M., Batzer, M.A. (1999). Interspersed repeat insertion polymorphisms for studies of human molecular anthropology. In Genomic Diversity: Applications in Human Population Genetics, ed. Papiha, Deka and Chackraborty, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Oublishers, pp 201-212, New York.

Soodyall, H., Morar, B. and Jenkins, T. "Genetic Archives". In "Refiguring the Archive", ed. C. Hamilton et al., David Philip Publishers, Cape Town, (in press).

Soodyall, H. Anthropological Genetics in South Africa. Chapter in book, Wenner Gren Foundation, Symposium 124: Anthropology in the age of Genetics: Practice, Discourse, Critique, (in press).