Title:
A great African gene migration
Author:
Dr Deborah Devis, Science Journalist at The Royal Institution of Australia
Published:
Cosmos, 29 October 2020
From the article:
In a paper published in the Journal Nature, researchers discovered three million new genetic variants across 50 ethnic groups, making this one of the widest data sets of sequenced genes in African populations to date.
This huge data set helped the team, led by Zané Lombard from South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand, identify populations with genes that helped combat certain diseases, such as malaria and sleeping sickness.