Fine-tooth Comb on Mexico's Genetics for Medical Purposes (2 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Fine-tooth Comb on Mexico's Genetics for Medical Purposes (2 of 2)

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The ancestral components of pre-Columbian populations are reflected in today's patterns of genomic diversity in Mexico. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the 13 June, 2014, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Moreno-Estrada at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, Calif., and colleagues was titled, "The genetics of Mexico recapitulates Native American substructure and affects biomedical traits."

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[Illustration: Rubén A. Ramos Mendoza]

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