Info Brief
Description
As part of our Congressional briefing, “The Common Thread: What genetics tells us about ancestry, health, and personal identity,” we have created an overview of the topics that our panelists addressed. This document presents the key scientific concepts behind how ethnicity and ancestry are analyzed from a genetics perspective, and how genes, ancestry, and the environment shape our health.
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Last reviewed February 2025.
