10,000 years of potato farming gave Indigenous Andeans the world’s highest starch-digestion gene counts, study finds (opens in new tab)

Potatoes have fed people in the Andes for thousands of years. According to a new genetic study, that long relationship appears to have shaped human DNA Researchers analyzed genetic data from 3,723 people representing 85 populations around the world. The highest number of copies of the starch-digesting gene AMY1 appeared in Indigenous populations from Peru’s […]