Photo by David EvansPierre Zalloua on a field expedition in Chad.
Check out the field updates below that were included in our last quarterly e-newsletter.
North Africa/Middle East Research Center
The North African/Middle Eastern team led by Genographic principal investigator Pierre Zalloua is currently tackling several projects:
•Studying the lineage of the Armenian population in Lebanon
•Tracing old lineages found in the Levant region (A and B haplogroups) in comparison with old lineages strictly found in Africa
•The J1/J2 sister clades split: an indication of possibly two routes for out-of-Africa migration
India Research Center
The Genographic team based at the University of Madurai in Madurai, India under principal investigator Ramasamy Pitchappan is currently sampling in the Amritsar region, between the River Beas and Sutluj, Jalandhar, and Patiala.
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