An African-American lady has reacted on social media after DNA test showed she has Nigerian roots. She said she has always ...

Scientists are using consumer-genomics databases to link living people to ancestors from the recent and not-so-recent past. But the meaning of these connections isn’t always clear.

The next most obvious might be the Yoruba, somewhere among the people on my dad’s side. One, who arrived from Lagos a few years ago, is a friend who lives down the hill in the flats. They refuse to ...

But how do these DNA tests work, and how can they tell if two people are related to each other?. A genetic test typically involves submitting a saliva sample to a laboratory. Scientists then ...

Yoruba is one of the three largest ethnic groups in Nigeria.They are concentrated in the Southwestern part of Nigeria. The people constitute about 40 million in the West African region and 35 per ...

But how do these DNA tests work, and how can they tell if two people are related to each other?. A genetic test typically involves submitting a saliva sample to a laboratory. Scientists then ...

That conclusion stems from a geographic imbalance in shared Neandertal DNA among people today. Africans exclusively share 7.2 percent of their Neandertal ancestry with Europeans, versus 2 percent ...