Scripps research team develops technique to determine ethnic ori...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Mon, 12/28/2009 - 23:00

(Scripps Research Institute) An international team of scientists led by researchers at the Scripps Research Institute has developed a straightforward technique to determine the ethnic origin of stem cells.

The team's analysis of a variety of human embryonic stem cell lines currently in use in research laboratories around the world found that these cells originated largely from Caucasian and East Asian populations, with little representation from populations originating in Africa.

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