60 Minutes on Ancestry Testing

Posted by Osagie Obasogie January 8, 2008
Biopolitical Times

In a good piece of investigative journalism, 60 Minutes' Leslie Stahl reviewed a burgeoning cottage industry: genetic ancestry testing. In addition to a striking human interest story where a white man and black woman discover that they share a common ancestor, the segment also includes interviews with Rick Kittles - Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago and one of the founders of African Ancestry Inc. - and Stanford Law Professor Henry Greely.

 

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