Jef Akst | Feb 16, 2010 | 3 min read
Scientists have sequenced the genomes of five individuals from indigenous populations in southern Africa, including famed South African Bishop Desmond Tutu, revealing new genetic variation among humans that they say will advance medical genomics research, according to a study published this week in Nature. Bushmen of southern AfricaImage: Stephan C. Schuster"It's the first genome sequence of a minority population in Africa," said human geneticist linkurl:Sarah Tishkoff;http://www.med.upenn.edu