First Aboriginal genome sequenced

1920s hair sample reveals Aboriginal Australians' explorer origins.

A 90-year-old tuft of hair has yielded the first complete genome of an Aboriginal Australian, a young man who lived in southwest Australia.

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Ewen Callaway
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Callaway, E. First Aboriginal genome sequenced. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.551

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