Sir Walter Bodmer A genetic map of the British people
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Channel: The Royal Society · 2012 · Science & Technology
Who are the British people? Where did they come from and how have they changed since the end of the ice age, when modern humans first came to the British Isles? How different are the people of Cornwall from those of Orkney or of East Anglia? Why are they different and what determines the differences? These are questions that can, to an amazing extent, be answered by studying the underlying genetic differences between the peoples of the British Isles. This genetic variation not only relates to the historical information we have about people's movements but may also be important for studying inherited variation in disease susceptibility. One way of pinpointing genetic variations is to look at face shapes and how they vary. We have been gathering a large set of 3D images of faces from all over the UK. From the statistical variation of various facial features, we hope to find anomalies that can be correlated with genetic variations.
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