 22/02/2010
Five new genomes decoded.
Nicholas Wade reports in the New York Times that scientists have decoded five African genomes, four Bushmen and one Bantu.
Following the article on Darwin published last week on our site, it is interesting to follow up with this excerpt:
"African genomes are of particular interest for understanding human genetic history because they have more variation in their DNA than other populations. Everyone outside Africa is descended from a small group that left some 50,000 years ago, carrying away only a small sample of the available genetic diversity.
Africans carry the bulk of the human genetic heritage but have been relatively little studied."
Read the full article here.
Source: The New York Times.
Photo: UCL Genetics Institute. « News
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