Embracing African Genetic Diversity

Scott M Williams; Giorgio Sirugo; Sarah A Tishkoff

doi:10.1016/j.medj.2020.12.019

Embracing African Genetic Diversity

Med. 2021 Jan 15;2(1):19-20. doi: 10.1016/j.medj.2020.12.019.

Authors

Scott M Williams¹, Giorgio Sirugo², Sarah A Tishkoff³

Affiliations

¹ Departments of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, and Genetics and Genome Sciences, Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.
² Institute of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics and Division of Translational Medicine and Human Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
³ Departments of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine and Department of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Electronic address: tishkoff@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.

PMID: 35590130
DOI: 10.1016/j.medj.2020.12.019

Abstract

Williams, Sirugo, and Tishkoff discuss the recent article by Choudhury et al.¹ reporting the whole-genome sequencing of 426 sub-Saharan African individuals and its contribution to the study of genetic diversity to understand human evolutionary history and health.

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MeSH terms

Biological Evolution*
Black People*
Genetic Variation / genetics
Humans
Whole Genome Sequencing