Pacific Islandersâ Ancestry Emerges in Genetic Study
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An international team of scientists found evidence that Polynesians and Micronesians were more closely related to East Asians, and had few links to western Pacific islanders.
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The first study of how large chunks of DNA differ among individuals has revealed that people are much more genetically varied than previously believed.
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On a remote Indonesian island, archeologists were astonished to discover a new, small human species that walked the earth just 18,000 years ago. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Researchers have found for the first time a change in DNA that could put someone at a higher risk for high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
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BYBLOS, Lebanon  - A Lebanese scientist following the genetic footprint of the ancient Phoenicians says he has traced their modern-day descendants, but stumbled into an old controversy about identity in his country.
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At issue is whether scientists using DNA from aboriginal populations are underselling the risks to donors.
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An Icelandic company has developed a genetic test for analyzing where in Iceland people come from or, if their parents or grandparents came from different places, how their ancestry is distributed over the island&#39;s 11 geographic regions.
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Some of the earliest settlers of America may have come from Australia, southern Asia, and the Pacific, new research suggests. Traditional theories have held that the first Americans originated from northern Asia.
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NEW YORK - In a new study, researchers present molecular evidence to show that malaria parasites in Africa that are resistant to the drug pyrimethamine actually originated in southeast Asia.
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A Kauai-based botanist who studies medicinal uses of plants has helped broker an agreement between the University of California at Berkeley and the Samoan government to isolate the gene for a promising anti-AIDS drug.
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Founder genetic mutation fingered US researchers have identified a married couple who sailed from England to the US in around 1630 as the bearers of a genetic mutation which puts their numerous descendants at higher risk of a hereditary form of colon cancer.â¦
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Sufferers of restless legs syndrome may get more respect now that its genetic basis has been identified.
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NEW YORK  - In a new study, researchers  present molecular evidence to show that malaria parasites in  Africa that are resistant to the drug pyrimethamine actually  originated in southeast Asia.
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Researchers said on Sunday they had  homed in on five areas of DNA that could account for 70 percent  of the genetic risk for type-2 diabetes.
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Studies of genetic recombination suggest that genetic shuffling varies by gender.
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Two researchers are following the footsteps of the religious patriarch in the hope that people will rediscover their common roots.
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Scientists have identified a gene  variation found in about 13 percent of women of European  descent that reduces their risk of developing breast cancer, a  study released on Sunday said.