Posted on 06/15/2005 11:34:14 AM PDT by blam
Oh, *bluuuuush*.
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Huh? What phenotyping questions?
If you'd like to contribute your own results to the project's global database you'll be asked to answer a dozen "phenotyping" questions that will help place your DNA in cultural context.
There are some things better left unknown.
We haven't got to that part of the project yet. My husband's results have been received by the testers but haven't been processed. My mother actually did give me her sample to mail today. And I have decided to punt and mail the sample I was going to give to my dad to my brother instead, just to avoid interpersonal weirdness.
But I would guess that the "phenotype" questions are just that - height, weight, color of hair, color of eyes, maybe ABO type.
A year or so ago they had an article on testing men in Lebanon, looking for the Phoenicians. I think that's way cool.
My mother's mtDNA is going to be some variation on Native American, because her mother's mother was part Chippewa.
No idea what my father's family's mtDNA will be, when I get one of his cousins to agree to take the test, but his mother was supposed to be part Cherokee.
I've done genetic testing at the Universith of Pittsburgh because I have rheumatoid arthritis, which is supposed to have a genetic component. Finding a cure would be so wonderful.
One of my earliest memories is my mother listening to the radio during the Hungarian uprising and crying because we weren't helping them.
I was born August 1952 so was quite young.
Right on, twin. I knew I had one somewhere!
A Family Tree in Every Gene [Races DO Exist: NYT]
NY Times Op-Ed Page | March 14, 2005 | ARMAND MARIE LEROI
Posted on 03/14/2005 3:10:30 AM PST by Pharmboy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1362319/posts
Pretty interesting; I may be tempted to give it a shot. We've traced my father's family back to Germany, but about the time of the French Revolution, any trace of us disappeared. My Dad likes to imagine we were French aristocracy who fled to Germany and made a new life, but BAH! I'd hate to pay one hundred bucks to find out I'm French, LOL!
The Franks and the Germanii were both Teutonic tribes, so I doubt they can tell the difference. Pretty much all Northern Europe was Teutonic except for the Celts and the Basques.
Well, that shows how little I know :-)
Geographic Society Is Seeking a Genealogy of Humankind
NY Times | April 13, 2005 | NICHOLAS WADE
Posted on 04/13/2005 3:33:59 AM PDT by Pharmboy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1382672/posts
Swab - and go into the database that IBM's building...
???????????
So what island are you from?
DId you participate in this survey too? Any results?
AW, poop -- the graphics at post 74 have since been deleted.
I'll have to find them & upload them again.
I have not participated....might though,, although I have a decent idea where great grandparents came from....northern europe,...England, Denmark, Germany.
For men, the NG project will trace back your y-chromosome DNA (your father's father's father's father's father's father's father's father's father's father's father's father... etc.); for women, it traces their mitochondrial x-chromosome DNA.
Other services will trace BOTH your y and x chromosomes, but they're pricier.
Same here! This is so interesting.
From what I know, i'm all Italian. My parents came here to the US in the early 70s. Many generations before them also nothing but Italian. I'm so curious though what else might be there. I'd be so interesting to find out.
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