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The Genetic Genealogist  
Adding DNA to the genealogist’s toolbox.
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Related Topics: article, genetic genealogy, meeting, genetic genealogist
Author: Blaine Bettinger

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A Critique of Genetic Ancestry Testing in Science Magazine

Jul 2, 2009
Five bioethicists have published a paper in today’s issue of Science - The Illusive Gold Standard in Genetic Ancestry Testing (paid subscription required) – calling for government regulation of genetic ancestry testing (aka genetic genealogy)....

Latest Genetic Genealogy Series "Faces of America" Expected From PBS in 2010

Jul 1, 2009
Via ” Mapping the Mario Batali Genome” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is working on a new four-part genetic genealogy series for PBS called “Faces of America”, expected to air in 2010.  Unlike the previous African American Lives series, the latest work...

Ancient Ancestry Finder From Ancestry.com - A Best Guess at Ancient Origin of Your Y-DNA or mtDNA

Jul 1, 2009
via blogs.ancestry.com Ancestry.com DNA offers a Y-DNA and mtDNA haplogroup predictor - the Ancient Ancestry Finder - based primarily on location of your most distant known paternal or maternal ancestor. From the site: To give everyone a sampling of...

The Potential Impact of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis on Discrimination of the Disabled: Analysis of Mitigating Factors

Jun 30, 2009
via slideshare.net This is a little off-topic for The Genetic Genealogist, but I thought I would share this paper which I wrote for a Genetics & Ethics class this spring. The paper examines all the biological and behavioral limitations on the ability...

The mtDNA of Ötzi the Iceman: A New Subclade of Haplogroup K1

Jun 30, 2009
The mtDNA of Otzi, the Iceman discovered in the Alps, was recently re-analyzed. The results suggest that the previous mtDNA sequence was contaminated by a modern mtDNA source, and that the mtDNA belongs to a previously unidentified subclade of...


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