DNA Testing: In Our Blood (Genetic Genealogy)

Newsweak ^ | Week of 2/6/06 | Claudia Kalb

[martin_fierro]

DNA Testing: In Our Blood

It is connecting lost cousins and giving families surprising glimpses into their pasts. Now scientists are using it to answer the oldest question of all: where did we come from?

By Claudia Kalb Newsweek

Feb. 6, 2006 issue - Brian Hamman had always wondered: what was up with his great-grandfather Lester? Hamman, an avid genealogist, could trace his patrilineal line back to 19th-century rural Indiana, but there was a glitch in the family records. Great-Grandpa Lester, the documents showed, was born before his parents were married. So was Lester really a Hamman? Was Brian? Three years ago DNA tests confirmed the lineage and a simple family mystery was solved: Lester's parents had hooked up before they walked down the aisle on July 25, 1898. Lester was indeed a Hamman, and so is Brian. "I'm delighted," he says.

[martin_fierro]

We Are Family: Father Bill Sanchez (back row, right) learned that his genes share characteristics of an ancient Jewish line. Some of his relatives closely match the signature, too

[martin_fierro]

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[Pharmboy]

So when they go into Father Bill's confessional, they better bring their lawyer...LOL!

[martin_fierro]

And then there's Prof. Henry Louis (Skip) Gates Jr., head of Harvard University's African-American Studies department. Gates always knew he wasn't 100 percent African-American. ... recent DNA analyses turned Gates's world upside down. ... Further testing revealed that Gates, in fact, carries as much Western European blood as he does African—and that one of his white ancestors was probably an Irish servant who met Gates's sixth or seventh great-grandfather sometime before 1700. "I'm thinking I'm a Brady and maybe I'm from Nigeria, and here I am descended from some white woman," says Gates. "It's incredible."

Guess you're no longer qualified for your job, huh. < /sarc >

[Pharmboy]

The "some white woman" quote struck me when I read this last night. Even if she's your own blood, if she's white, she's "some woman." Sheesh...

[martin_fierro]

Black Irish.

[martin_fierro]

Six years ago the term genetic genealogy was meaningless, says Bennett Greenspan, head of Family Tree DNA, which has 52,000 customers. "Now the interest is huge." So huge that celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg and Quincy Jones are signing on.

Fatuous statements like this are why I don't subscribe to Newsweak.

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

"So huge that celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg and Quincy Jones are signing on."

Grr! I love genealogy and I am addicted to it. I was thinking about this a few years ago, but now I won't go near it. Why do the "stars" have to ruin everything!?!?

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

here's a related "whore!" "bastard!" topic:

Could be that dad is not real father, report shows (Is that kid really yours?)
reuters via Yahoo News | Aug 11, 2005 | SOURCE: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, August 2005.
Posted on 08/11/2005 12:40:55 PM PDT by summer
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1461497/posts

also related:

Genes To Help Tell 'Story Of Everybody'
ABC.net | 4-13-2005
Posted on 04/13/2005 4:49:43 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1383211/posts

Genetic Catalog May Aid Search for Roots of Disease
NY Times | October 27, 2005 | NICHOLAS WADE
Posted on 10/27/2005 3:07:32 AM PDT by Pharmboy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1510071/posts

One-Fifth Of Human Genes Have Been Patented, Study Reveals
National Geographic | 10-13-2005 | Stefan Lovgren
Posted on 10/15/2005 1:53:51 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1503109/posts

[SunkenCiv]

CHEATING'S IN THE DNA FOR LADIES
NY Post | 11-25-04 | BILL HOFFMANN
Posted on 11/25/2004 6:24:26 AM PST by Pharmboy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1288265/posts

Study: Genes Play Role in Women's Orgasms
AP | 6/7/5 | EMMA ROSS
Posted on 06/07/2005 8:00:10 PM PDT by SmithL
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1418511/posts

Don't worry chaps, it's all in her genes
The Daily Telegraph | June 8, 2005 | Nic Fleming
Posted on 06/07/2005 10:27:41 PM PDT by MadIvan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1418587/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Sons I gave birth to are 'unrelated' to me
The Telegraph | November 13, 2003 | Roger Highfield
Posted on 11/17/2003 10:20:10 AM PST by NYer
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1023494/posts

[martin_fierro]

Yeah, there was a documentary/show about Chimeras on the Discovery Channel/TLC some months ago. INTERESTING!

[blam]

"Yeah, there was a documentary/show about Chimeras on the Discovery Channel/TLC some months ago. INTERESTING!"

I saw that, amazing. What? They watched the baby come from the mother's womb but it's not relater to her what-so-ever?

[SunkenCiv]

Jim Meara was Ann's first husband I think. ;')

[oh8eleven]

Guess you're no longer qualified for your job, huh.
And he probably wasn't in the first place.