Summary
Continent: Africa
Population: 85,281,024 (CIA Factbook 2018)
Literacy: 77% (2016 CIA Factbook)
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a country in Central Africa. It was formerly known as Zaire.
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Genetics
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mtDNA
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Background
Journal Articles
- de Filippo, Cesare; Barbieri, Chiara; Whitten, Mark; Mpoloka, Sununguko Wata W.; Gunnarsdottir, Ellen Drofn D.; Bostoen, Koen; Nyambe, Terry; Beyer, Klaus; Schreiber, Henning; de Knijff, Peter; Luiselli, Donata; Stoneking, Mark & Pakendorf, Brigitte (2011). Y-chromosomal variation in sub-Saharan Africa: insights into the history of Niger-Congo groups. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 28(3), 1255-1269.
- van Dorp, L., Lowes, S., Weigel, J.L., Ansari-Pour, N., López, S., Mendoza-Revilla, J., Robinson, J.A., Henrich, J., Thomas, M.G., Nunn, N. and Hellenthal, G. (2018). Genetic legacy of state centralization in the Kuba Kingdom of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201811211, -.