Genetic ancestry of African-Americans reveals new insights about gene expression
Friday, December 5, 2008 - 11:36
in Biology & Nature
The amount of proteins produced in cells—a fundamental determinant of biological outcomes collectively known as gene expression—varies in African American individuals depending on their proportion of African or European genetic ancestry. These findings, by researchers based in Boston, Philadelphia and Oxford, are published December 5 in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics.