Tutu leads the way (Image: CArsten Windhorst/WENN)
THE genome club just claimed its first clergyman, in the shape of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Tutu and a Khoisan man from the Kalahari are the first southern Africans to have their genomes sequenced and published.
In November 2008, a Han Chinese man and a Nigerian man became the first non-whites to have their genomes sequenced. Each of the southern African genomes is a source of further untapped genetic diversity. Interestingly, their genomes are as similar to Europeans’ as they are to the other sequenced African genomes – both from Yorubas.
The genome of Tutu,…
