National Geographic Migration Study Rouses Indigenous Concern

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The National Geographic Society's Genographic Project has a grand goal paired with a simple plan: Over the next five years, researchers will collect over 100,000 DNA samples from indigenous people around the world and use the genetic data to map human migratory history. Critics see risks, not gains, for DNA donors.

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