首页|AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS GENOMES ARE HIGHLY DIVERSE AND UNIQUE
AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS GENOMES ARE HIGHLY DIVERSE AND UNIQUE
扫码查看
点击上方二维码区域，可以放大扫码查看
原文链接
NETL
NSTL
Australian Indigenous communities from different regions in the north and centre of the country are some of the most genetically distinct people on the planet, according to a pair of studies published in Nature. Indigenous Australian communities have the highest rate of genetic variation outside people in Africa. Hundreds of thousands of human genomes have been sequenced since the Human Genome Project was launched in 1990, yet very few are from Indigenous Australians. "The history of genetic research has not proven to be kind to the interests of Indigenous and other diverse communities around the globe," says study co-author Alex Brown, an Indigenous Australian from the Yuin nation and director of the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics at the Australian National University in Canberra. As a result. Indigenous Australians are under-represented in the genomic data sets that now underpin much research in medicine. "Those data sets don't contain any information about Indigenous peoples, and that creates bias in our interpretation of genomics," says Hardip Patel, a co-author of both papers and a bioinformatics researcher at the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics.
NETL
NSTL
