Khoe-San Genome Project

The dataset contains BAM files of whole genome sequencing data of African Khoe-San population (n=169, 30X coverage) recruited from South Africa and Namibia. The population captured the true extent of human genetic diversity as represent the earliest diverged human population. The project described a detailed divergence of human population and identified positive selections associated forager lifestyles in Khoe-San population. These findings emphasise an inclusive catalogue with better representation of the earliest human genomic diversity to better advance biomedical research.

Type: Whole Genome Sequencing
Archiver: European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA)

1 Dataset

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Dataset ID	Description	Technology	Samples
EGAD50000002043	The dataset contains BAM files of whole genome sequencing data of African Khoe-San population (n=169, 30X coverage). DNA extracted from blood underwent 2 × 150 bp sequencing on the Illumina HiSeq X instrument (Kinghorn Centre for Clinical Genomics, Garvan Institute of Medical Research). Raw sequencing reads were aligned against human reference hg38 including alternative contigs using bwa (v.0.7.15). The Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK, v.3.5-0) was used for duplicate marking, indel realignment and base quality recalibration.	HiSeq X Ten	169