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Love may be blind, but DNA is mysterious

(UPI) People mysteriously marry those with similar ancestry, U.S. researchers say…

Specifically, [the researchers] find Mexicans mate according to proportions of Native American to European ancestry, while Puerto Ricans are more likely to settle down with someone carrying a similar mix of African and European genes.

Not only are there similar ancestry patterns between spouses, an imprint of many non-random associations of genes between original ancestral populations is found within the genomic architecture within each individual.

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