Leveraging our common African origins to understand human evolution and health

Ambroise Wonkam; Adebowale Adeyemo

doi:10.1016/j.xgen.2023.100278

Leveraging our common African origins to understand human evolution and health

Cell Genom. 2023 Mar 8;3(3):100278. doi: 10.1016/j.xgen.2023.100278.

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Ambroise Wonkam¹, Adebowale Adeyemo²

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¹ McKusick-Nathans Institute & Department of Genetic Medicine. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
² Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Abstract

In the March 2023 issue of Cell, Fan et al.¹ report whole-genome sequencing across 12 indigenous African populations and analyze local adaptation and evolutionary history. Here, Wonkam and Adeyemo highlight their findings and how this contributes to African and global genomic research.

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