There is more genetic variability within Africa than the whole rest of world combined https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article/study-africans-mo...
That's a scientific reason to sequence the genes of African people more.
That's a scientific reason to sequence the genes of African people more.
> Europeans are not clones
In terms of genetic diversity, yes, they are. I don't know where you get your opinion from, but in science, the more representitive the scientific sample of the population is better the statistical analysis of that population. A European/Asian only dataset it not representative of the actual human genetic diversity.
I never said that we can infer everything from European data. I never said collecting African genetic data is pointless. I know that Europeans do not vary nearly as much from a genetic standpoint as Africans (although they're definitely not clones). I know you can't generalise using European/Asian data. I know larger samples describe the population better.
All I said is that it's easier to analyse data that is less variable, and that Europeans aren't clones. Both points are true. Finding patterns is more difficult when there is more variance in the data. That doesn't mean it's pointless, it's actually more useful, but it's also more difficult.