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Into Africa

Fri, 2012-07-27 00:59 -- John Hawks

I have a lot to say about the new study of African genomes by Joseph Lachance and colleagues [1], which I think is tremendously exciting, along with the new preprint from Joseph Pickrell and colleagues on the arXiv, which includes some similar analyses with SNP data. But I'm on my way to Africa myself today for a week, and don't have time to post all my thoughts about the new papers until I arrive there. So I'll try to post these over the weekend.

References

  1. Lachance J, Vernot B, Elbers CC, Ferwerda B, Froment A, Bodo J-M, Lema G, Fu W, Nyambo TB, Rebbeck TR, et al. Evolutionary history and adaptation from high-coverage whole-genome sequences of diverse African hunter-gatherers. Cell. 2012;150(3):457-69.
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