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Nature 457, 380-381 (22 January 2009) | doi:10.1038/457380a; Published online 21 January 2009
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Being Human: Kinship: Race relations
Aravinda Chakravarti1
- Aravinda Chakravarti is at the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Broadway Research Building, Room 579, 733 North Broadway, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA.
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Our notions of family, population and race may need revising in the age of personal genomics, argues Aravinda Chakravarti.
Genealogical records are currently the system of choice for people tracing their family history. But in the next decade, we will be able to identify many of our relatives by searching a DNA database of personal genome sequences.
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