Tutu flies flag for African genomes

摘要

The genome club just claimed its first clergyman, in the shape of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Tutu and a Khoisan man from the Kalahari are the first southern Africans to have their genomes sequenced and published.rnIn November 2008, a Han Chinese man and a Nigerian man became the first non-whites to have their genomes sequenced. Each of the southern African genomes is a source of further untapped genetic diversity.