Tag: Simon Gravel

  • Tales of African-American History Found in DNA The New York Times 2016-05-27 Carl Zimmer The history of African-Americans has been shaped in part by two great journeys. The first brought hundreds of thousands of Africans to the southern United States as slaves. The second, the Great Migration, began around 1910 and sent six million African-Americans…

  • The Great Migration and African-American Genomic Diversity PLOS Genetics 2016-05-27 27 pages DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006059 Soheil Baharian Department of Human Genetics McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Genome Quebec Innovation Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Maxime Barakatt McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Christopher R. Gignoux Department of Genetics Stanford University School of Medicine,…