where do we find the highest genetic diversity among human populations
Human genetic variation Alleles occur at different frequencies in different human populations, with populations that are more geographically and ancestrally remote tending to differ more, a phenomenon known as isolation-by-distance. The differences between different populations represent a small proportion of overall human genetic variation. Populations also differ in the quantity of variation among their members, with greatest diversity among African populations. This is consistent with the theory that humans recently migrated out of Africa. Populations also vary in the (always small) proportion of DNA they received from archaic hominid populations, such as Neanderthals and Denisovans.
Human Genome Project The Human Genome Project was a 15-year-long, publicly funded project initiated in 1990 with the objective of determining the DNA sequence of the entire euchromatic human genome within 15 years.[5] In May 1985, Robert Sinsheimer organized a workshop to discuss sequencing the human genome,[6] but for a number of reasons the NIH was uninterested in pursuing the proposal. The following March, the Santa Fe Workshop was organized by Charles DeLisi and David Smith of the Department of Energy's Office of Health and Environmental Research (OHER).[7] At the same time Renato Dulbecco proposed whole genome sequencing in an essay in Science.[8] James Watson followed two months later with a workshop held at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.