Hokulea, a traditional Hawaiian voyaging canoe, representing the long-distance voyaging that shaped Polynesian genomes. Science Polynesian genomes show founder effects ten times stronger than Finland's, studies find Mono Scoops 2d Two studies drawing on whole genomes from more than 1,000 French Polynesian participants show Polynesian founder effects at least ten times stronger than Finland's, concentrating disease-causing and protective variants that global databases miss. Read Full Story
