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What average genetic variation can tell us (or not)
Posted by Razib Khan on February 17, 2010
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To the left I’ve juxtaposed the images of the four Bushmen males whose genomes were analyzed in the recent Nature paper and compared to Desmond Tutu. I’ve added to the montage a photo of a Swedish and Chinese man. The Nature paper looked at the HapMap data sets which had within them whites from Utah,…
The Bushmen & the Bantu
Posted by Razib Khan on February 17, 2010 There’s a new paper out in Nature which details the genomes of several Bushmen, and how they relate to other humans, and one particular Bantu speaking individual, archbishop Desmond Tutu. It’s open access, Complete Khoisan and Bantu genomes from southern Africa. I haven’t read the whole thing, but it is probably best to check out…