You Can Self-identify With Any Ancestry You Want, But Genetically...
Thursday, December 18, 2014 - 16:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
There is a running joke in America that there are three times as many people in the U.S. claiming to be Irish as there are actual people in Ireland. Though it's nice to claim to be Irish because of a last name, America is a melting pot. And it is so melted that the genetic ancestry of racial and ethnic groups varies significantly even across different geographic regions in the United States. A paper in the American Journal of Human Genetics, researchers analyzed the genomes of more than 160,000 African-Americans, Latin-Americans and European-Americans, providing insights into the subtle differences in genetic ancestry across the United States. read more