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Aug 13 2008

A Different Kind of Gene Mapping: Comparing Genetic and Geographic Structure in Europe

Published by chris under big questions

By Chris Gignoux and Mike Macpherson
It should be no surprise that in general, we are more genetically similar to our neighbors than to people living far away. The reason is fairly simple — until recently in human history it was fairly rare for people from widely separated geographic regions to even meet, much less reproduce.
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