Rare genetic variants found among Polynesians reveal gaps in global databases that could have implications for health care.

Native Hawaiians have the closest genetic ties to Rapa Nui, according to a Science study led by Alexander Ioannidis using ...

(estivillml/Adobe Stock) It took approximately 4 billion years of cumulative evolution to make modern humans, but it only took us 0.000075 of that immense span to settle the entire globe – including ...

New study suggests that settlement of the Pacific occurred in a migration process with what the authors call a series of nested genetic bottlenecks.

By Will Dunham Oct 20 (Reuters) - It was a difficult, almost incomprehensible, feat. A band of seafarers from Easter Island ...

Variant Bio was founded on the idea that populations with distinctive genetic histories hold discoveries other datasets ...

World maps treat the Pacific Ocean quite boldly. They fill the land with detailed place names, and then just paint the sea ...

New DNA evidence traces Native Hawaiians back to Easter Island voyagers, and reveals hidden health risks hiding in that ancestry.

Hawaiʻi and Rapa Nui, the island also known as Easter Island, are two of the farthest-flung places Polynesian voyagers ever settled. Yet their people are each other’s closest genetic relatives among ...

It was a difficult, almost incomprehensible, feat. A band of seafarers from Easter Island in the South Pacific set off in ...

When looking at global sports, there are regions that exert a presence far greater than their population size would ...

A new DNA study reveals how medieval Polynesian voyagers settled Hawaii and Easter Island, uncovering genetic links across 7,000 kilometres of ocean.