Where did the samples of the African Ancestry company come from?
Burroughs: They used some DNA samples that they did not take — that other labs have done that they have access to. So they have not collected all the DNA that’s in the databases that they use. Some of them are — I don’t know if you’d call it a public domain database — but they have results that other scientists have access to. Kittles: The samples came from either preliminary research that I was doing or from publications of genetic studies in Africa or from collaborations with other scientists. I’ve worked with anthropologists, historians and geneticists from all over the world. A lot of European universities, for instance in Italy and in Portugal, have done a lot of work in central and west Africa. So I have collaborations with many of them or I have access to many of their publications. There’s what used to be called Genbank, a genetic database where when you publish research, you can deposit the sequence of information into this database that you can access online. I don’t think
