The University of Wisconsin anthropologist John Hawks canâ??t figure out why deCODEâ??s CEO publicized the companyâ??s analysis of James Watsonâ??s DNA. The analysis showed, in the words of the New York Times report, that Watsonâ??s DNA â??has 16 times the number of genes considered to be of African origin than the average white European does â?? about the same amount of African DNA that would show up if one great-grandparent were African, said Kari Stefansson, the chief executive of deCODE Genetics of Iceland, which did the analysis.â?
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