New Statistical Method Reveals Surprises About Our Ancestry

Friday, May 23, 2008 - 09:28 in Mathematics & Economics

A statistical approach to studying genetic variation promises to shed new light on the history of human migration. Application of the method has already turned up such surprising findings as a strong Mongolian contribution to the genes of the Native American Pima people and gene flow from the north of Europe to Eastern Siberia.

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