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

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Mar 27, 2025, 2:00 pm120 pts
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. Their results are published in the journal Science.

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