Abstract
Ethnic Origin of Crime Scene Evidential Materials Determination in Three Main Ethno-linguistic Population Groups in Nigeria
Highlights
Nigeria is located at the Gulf of Guinea in the Western part of Africa with an estimated population of 183 million according to the July 2016 estimate of the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) world fact book [1]
The objective of the current study is to identify population specific markers that will show distinct genetic variability among the three main ethno-linguistic population groups in Nigeria
The Hausa ethnic group is found in the North and it belongs to the AfroAsiatic linguistic family in the subphylum ‘Chadic’ together with the Angas, Bachamas, Tangale, Bokkos and so on
Summary
Nigeria is located at the Gulf of Guinea in the Western part of Africa with an estimated population of 183 million according to the July 2016 estimate of the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) world fact book [1]. It comprises of over 527 ethno-linguistic groups with 520 of them in existence and 7 extinct [2]. The Yoruba and Ibo ethnic groups are found in the West and East respectively They belong to the Niger-Kordofanian linguistic family in the subphylum ‘Kwa’ together with Edo, Itsekiri, Tiv, Igala, Idoma and so on. These alleles may exist with large allele frequency differential referred to as population specific alleles (PSAs) [6,7]
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