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Patterns of African and Asian admixture in the Afrikaner population of South Africa

2020; BioMed Central; Volume: 18; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1186/s12915-020-0746-1

1741-7007

Nina Hollfelder, J. Christoff Erasmus, Rickard Hammarén, Mário Vicente, Mattias Jakobsson, Jaco M. Greeff, Carina M. Schlebusch,

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The Afrikaner population of South Africa is the descendants of European colonists who started to colonize the Cape of Good Hope in the 1600s. In the early days of the colony, mixed unions between European males and non-European females gave rise to admixed children who later became incorporated into either the Afrikaner or the Coloured populations of South Africa. Differences in ancestry, social class, culture, sex ratio and geographic structure led to distinct and characteristic admixture patterns in the Afrikaner and Coloured populations. The Afrikaner population has a predominant European composition, whereas the Coloured population has more diverse ancestries. Genealogical records previously estimated the contribution of non-Europeans into the Afrikaners to be between 5.5 and 7.2%.