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Episode 13: Cultivating Connections to the Continent of Africa with AfroRoots DNA

2020-07-20

There are roughly 200 million people of African descent living in the Americas who are currently unable to pinpoint their specific African heritage. AfroRoots is an NYC-based startup that seeks to provide insight into the origins of all African descendants in the Americas, using state-of-the-art genetic approaches to ancestry inference. Thereby encouraging underrepresented communities to engage in genomics. Another primary focus of AfroRoots is to stimulate more travel to Sub Saharan Africa and bring about...