A new study that combined the genetic data of more than 50,000 people of African and European ancestry with historical records of the trans-Atlantic slave trade found DNA differences in people living in different parts of the Americas, bolstering efforts to examine how slavery shaped the ancestry of today’s population. The research, led by consumer-focused DNA-testing company 23andMe Inc. and researchers at the University of Leicester in the U.K., analyzed the genetic data of people in the Americas, Atlantic Africa and Western...

Source: Wall Street Journal July 23, 2020 15:04 UTC