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)....

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...

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...

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 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...