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Teams ot scientists visited remote parts of India collecting blood samp1es
with the permission of the people who agreed to participate in the study.
In the lab, DNA extracted from these blood
samples was used for sequencing importat regions
of the genome.
Besides finding the relatedness between the people of India, such data can
explain susceptibility to diseases. Here is an exa mple..
Malaria is common in some parts of India. People
who have a particular form of a gene called FCGR2A
are less susceptible to malaria. The pattern of
reflects the
occurrence of this form of the gene
pattern of malaria susceptibility
