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Researchers locate geographic origins from DNA
Published in Proteomics Weekly, September 15th, 2008
A study published online this week in Nature by an international team that included Cornell University researchers describes the use of DNA to predict the geographic origins of individuals from a sample of Europeans, often within a few hundred kilometers of where they were born.
"What we found is that within Europe, individuals with all four grandparents from a given region are slightly more similar genetically to one another, on average, than to individuals from more distant regions," said Carlos Bustamante, associate professor of...
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Source: Proteomics Weekly (2008-09-15)
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