A new study from the NIH’s All of Us program is shaking up long-held assumptions by revealing that genetic ancestry rarely aligns with racial labels — and that the interplay between biology and ...

A long-held theory about the earliest migration to the Americas is under fresh scientific fire. For years, many believed that the First Peoples came from Japan, tracing their ancestry to the Jomon, a ...

Dr. Sarah Anzick, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institutes of Health, addresses the second panel topic, "Genomics & Ancestry: Ethics, Origins, and Policy," by speaking on "Genome Sequencing of ...

Dr. Deana Around Him (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma), Johns Hopkins University, addresses the third panel topic, "Insights from the Field: Next Generation native Researchers," by speaking on "Paths to ...

Members of the American Indian Program are voicing strong opposition to Cornell’s participation in the National Geographic Genographic Project, arguing that the project overlooks the political and ...

Led by Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, an assistant professor in Simon Fraser University's (SFU) Department of Indigenous Studies, the innovative study was recently published in the Proceedings of the ...

A landmark study has uncovered novel ancestry-specific genetic variants linked to multiple sclerosis (MS), offering new insights that could reshape treatment approaches for diverse populations ...