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Thursday, August 14, 2008

Locating Where You Come From by Your Genes

A paper in Current Biology (fee required) is reviewed in the New York Times. The bottom line: people from the same country tend to clump together in a map of their genetic make up. Thus, in theory: “it should be possible to devise a forensic test to tell which country in Europe an individual probably comes from, said Manfred Kayser, a geneticist at the Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands.”

The maps are most interesting.

via ScienceBlogs

by Adena Schutzberg on 08/14 at 07:45 AM | Comments | Bookmark and Share

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