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Africa has the world’s greatest genetic diversity, yet it’s missing from research: we’re filling the gap

By Michele Ramsay, Director of the Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Professor in the Division of Human Genetics, University of the Witwatersrand
Ananyo Choudhury, Reader at the Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of the Witwatersrand

Most genetic studies focus on people from European ancestry. But Africa has the richest diversity and must be included in genetic databases.

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