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Hey everybody, Emily Quang here.

And as you might have guessed, being a reporter and a podcast co-host, I spend many hours

marinating in the medium and listening to other podcasts.

And what I recently started to listen to and love is in those genes.

Welcome to the family everybody.

You're listening to in those genes.

A science and culture podcast that uses genetics to decode the lost histories of African descendants.

The host and executive producer is population geneticist, Janina Jeff.

Janina's podcast is in so many ways an extension of her career in genetics and an interrogation

of science.

She's a researcher at Illumina, a biotech company and is super interested in the influence

of genetics on human health.

So really, it is my love for genetics, black people and the arts that has inspired me to

make this show.

But also because tons of people use science to perpetuate a bunch of bulls about black folks.

And it's for these reasons that from the start, Janina decided to root this podcast in

something she calls scientific, Sancophah, which she learned from her grandfather through

his trips to Ghana.

There's a name proverb called Sancophah.

In English, it means it's never too late to go back and fetch what has been lost or forgotten.

The proverb has been an important cultural element to pan-African.

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