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Nature Reviews Genetics 5, 611-618 (August 2004) | doi:10.1038/nrg1405
Opinion: Genetic ancestry and the search for personalized genetic histories
Mark D. Shriver1 & Rick A. Kittles2 About the authors
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Abstract
Public demand and the development of large public and private databases of genetic information across human populations has encouraged the development of the new and rapidly growing field of genetic ancestry testing. Both the promise of the science that underlies this field and a lack of a full understanding of its limitations have fuelled the increased public interest in genetic ancestry testing.
Author affiliations
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Mark D. Shriver is at the Department of Anthropology, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
Email: mds17@psu.edu -
Rick A. Kittles is at the Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
Email: kittles-1@medctr.osu.edu
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