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Ancient human DNA hints at why multiple sclerosis affects so many northern Europeans today
Headline from Anchorage Daily News
The findings come from a huge project to compare modern DNA with that culled from ancient humans’ teeth and bones — allowing scientists to trace both prehistoric migration and disease-linked genes that tagged along.
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The findings come from a huge project to compare modern DNA with that culled from ancient humans’ teeth and bones — allowing scientists to trace both prehistoric migration and disease-linked genes that tagged along.
When a Bronze Age people called the Yamnaya moved into northwestern Europe, they carried gene variants that today are known to increase people’s risk of multiple sclerosis, researchers found.
(CNN) — Scientists have compiled the largest database of ancient DNA based on the bones and teeth of almost 5,000 humans who lived across Western Europe
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