This is the blog for GW students taking Human Evolutionary Genetics. This site is for posting interesting tidbits on: the patterns and processes of human genetic variation;human origins and migration; molecular adaptations to environment, lifestyle and disease; ancient and forensic DNA analyses; and genealogical reconstructions.

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Monday, October 12, 2015

The Effects of Social Organization on mtDNA and nDNA


This study draws on the analysis of a living population to determine the effectiveness of archaic studies driven purely by mtDNA or nDNA, hoping to shed some light on genetic processes that cannot be accounted for on the basis of such things as samples limited in their size, or even through the social processes that influence inheritance. The Yanomamo are an endogamous group in South America that informed the basis of this study.


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