Huge genetic diversity among Papuan New Guinean peoples revealed
September 14, 2017
Typical setting of a Goroka village in the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. Credit: Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research
The first large-scale genetic study of people in Papua New Guinea has shown that different groups within the country are genetically highly different from each other. Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their colleagues at the University of Oxford and the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research reveal that the people there have remained genetically independent from Europe and Asia for most of the last 50,000 years, and that people from the country's isolated highlands region have been completely independent even until the present day.
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