Complaints by indigenous leaders and local officials have blocked a plan by geneticists with the National Geographic Society to collect DNA from the remote Q'eros tribe in Peru as part of the Genographic Project, which seeks molecular clues to humankind's migrations over the globe. Click here to read more in the Science Insider.
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05/26/2011: Indigenous Peruvian Tribe blocks DNA sampling by National Geographic
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