Most genetic studies focus on people from European ancestry. But Africa has the richest diversity and must be included in genetic databases.
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New research has found that the world’s baobab trees all evolved on Madagascar 21 million years ago. Sometime in the last 12 million years, they floated on piles of debris to Australia and Africa.
Genomic research stands to help develop new medical treatments – and we need donations of lots of data for this to work. But people don’t want data on their genes to be exploited for profit.
A new study hopes to produce a catalogue of human genetic variation and assess the burden of noncommunicable diseases in 100,000 adults in Nigeria.
Keeping biomedical data private is important, but so is sharing it for research. Game theory can help researchers accomplish both.
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Lecturer in Psychology, Swinburne University of Technology
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Plant Genetics and Co-director of MSc Plant and Fungal Taxonomy Diversity, Queen Mary University of London
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Associate Professor of Computer Science, Washington University in St. Louis
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Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics & Computer Science, Vanderbilt University
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Professor and Chair of Genomic Diversity, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor of Pediatrics and Law and Health Policy, Vanderbilt University
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Reader at the Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director of the Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Professor in the Division of Human Genetics, University of the Witwatersrand