- Course overview
- Search within this course
- Let’s begin the journey
- Travel back in time to the Ice Age: Europe PMC
- Nice moves (genetically speaking): Ensembl
- Travel to high altitude: ArrayExpress
- Future travel (Plants in space): Expression Atlas
- The joys of travel (food) part 1: IntAct
- The joys of travel (food) part 2: ChEMBL
- Travel challenges (jet-lag): Complex Portal
- Perils of travel: PDBe and EMDB
- Travel to a cool destination (The Arctic): MGnify
- Discover more data resources
- The journey continues
- Your feedback
- References
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Nice moves (genetically speaking): Ensembl
Since the Ice Age, humans have moved all over the world. We can track the historic migration of human populations by looking at genetic variation data for modern human populations, such as that generated by the 1000 Genomes project2.
The 1000 Genomes project was a sequencing project to call variants in 2504 individuals from 26 populations around the world, including seven African or African-descended populations. Using Ensembl you can explore all the variants identified in this project, including their frequencies and the genotypes of the individuals.
Try solving the following challenge using Ensembl. Give it a go yourself before looking at the solution at the bottom of this page. Turn the card if you need a hint!
Solution
Explore the following Ensembl page to find out how you can solve this challenge.
Find the sub-population with the C|T genotype in the list at the bottom of the page, then identify the individual within that sub-population:
About Ensembl
Ensembl provides a genome browser that acts as a single point of access for annotated genomes. Genes, genetic variants and regulatory features are all annotated onto genomes, with comparative genomics analyses carried out on genes and genomes.
Learn more in our Ensembl: Quick tour.