Diversity inclusive Genome Study for Southern Africa
Initiated in 2008, previously the Southern African Genome Sequencing Project, the over-riding goal of DiGS-SA - to include Africans, in particular Southern Africans, in the genomic revolution and in turn associated health benefits, while mapping modern humans earliest ancestral heritage. Here the Hayes Lab has been working for an extended period across southern Africa.
!Gubi (KB1) and Archbishop Desmond Tutu (ABT) contribute their DNA to become the first Africans to have their genomes sequenced (Nature 2010).
Photo: Chris Bennett