Analyzing human DNA variations, Kenneth Kidd
Interviewee: Kenneth Kidd. Analyzing human DNA variations.
We look at DNA of humans, and of modern humans, not of ancient ones. We collect blood samples from normal, healthy living people from different populations around the world. And look at the DNA sequence, usually not sequenced strictly, but at variants that we know about and type those variants so we know for that limited bit of DNA what flavor, what allele each individual has.
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