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Share Think local. Scientists have mapped the genetic relationships between Mexico’s indigenous groups and discovered a stunning amount of diversity. A. Moreno-Estrada et al., Science (2014) People from Mexico show stunning amount of genetic diversity Jun. 12, 2014 , 2:00 PM Imagine if people from Kansas and California were as genetically distinct from each other as someone from Germany is from someone from Japan. That’s the kind of remarkable genetic variation that scientists have now found within Mexico, thanks to the first fine-scale study of human genetic var...

Democratizing DNA-based health risk scores Hutch-led consortium receives $9.8M grant to improve genetic risk prediction for cardiovascular disease in racially and ethnically diverse populations December 10, 2020 • By Diane Mapes / Fred Hutch News Service Photo illustration by Getty Images For more than a decade, scientists with the PAGE consortium (Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology) have been focused on developing polygenic risk scores — those statistical estimates of a person’s risk for disease based on their genes �...