Reading history through genetics

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 - 12:01 in Biology & Nature

An engineering study demonstrates a new approach used to analyze genetic data to learn more about the history of populations. The authors, the first to develop a method that can describe in detail events in recent history, focused on two populations, the Ashkenazi Jews and the Masai people of Kenya.

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