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African-American DNA Roots Project

A non-profit, collaborative effort of Dr. Bruce Jackson of the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Dr. Bert Ely of the University of South Carolina Department of Biological Sciences to reunite African-Americans with their ancestral roots in Africa.

National Human Genome Center at Howard University

Washington, D.C.

Scientific American: Feature Article: The Puzzle of Hypertension in African-Americans: February 1999

Genes are often invoked to account for why high blood pressure is so common among African-Americans. Yet the rates are low in Africans. This discrepancy demonstrates how genes and the environment interact.