The peopling of Sub-Saharan Africa: the case study of Cameroon

This study analyzes the distribution of ten protein genetic polymorphisms in eighteen populations from the most densely inhabited areas of Cameroon. The languages spoken belong to three different linguistic families (Afro-Asiatic (AA), Nilo-Saharan (NS) and Niger-Kordofanian (NK). The analysis of variation of allele frequencies indicates that the level of genetic interpopulation differentiation is rather low (F(sub st)=0.011+/- 0.006) but statistically significant (p