1.033 billion http://worldpopulationreview.com/continents/africa-population/
7.125 billion http://www.prb.org/Publications/Datasheets/2014/2014-world-population-da...
14 percent of world population but 10 percent people in studies.
10,000 diseases. Geoffrey Siwo Dartmouth computational biologist lost three sisters to disease in Kenya.
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3036620/its-a-huge-dangerous-mistake-that-afr...
http://www.ozy.com/#!/rising-stars-and-provocateurs/geoffrey-siwo-crowd…
United Genomes Project, Africa's first crowdsourced, open-source genetic database. Siwo and his team will start by asking 1,000 first-generation African-Americans to upload their results from 23andMe and other commercially available genetic kits - so it's still still a solution being brought about by the developed world. 23andMe, funded by Google, and other home genetics kits, an American university and data from people living in America. It's hard to criticize pharmaceutical companies for not testing in Africa - where informed consent can be difficult because of language and cultural understanding differences.
“The difference between the genetics of two individuals of two who are from Africa is much greater than the difference between a European and an Asian,” says Siwo. For example, when scientists did those first studies on Tutu and the three others, they discovered 1.3 million genetic variants that had never been seen before. “The big lack of data from African populations has a very huge impact on our understanding of disease in all the world,” he says.
