A genetic tree as a movie: Moving beyond the still portrait of ancestry - Scientific Inquirer

A genetic tree as a movie: Moving beyond the still portrait of ancestry - Scientific Inquirer

University of Michigan researchers have developed a statistical method that can be used for such wide-ranging applications as tracing your ancestry, modeling disease spread and studying how animals spread through geographic regions. One of the method’s applications is to give a more complete sense of human ancestry, says Gideon Bradburd, U-M professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. For example, when you send your DNA off for a personalized…