Posted on 06/15/2005 11:34:14 AM PDT by blam
The Genographic Project
Public participation, including yours, is critical to the Genographic Project's success.
Here's how you can get involved:
Purchasing a Public Participation Kit will fund important research around the world—and open the door to the ancient past of your own genetic background.
With a simple and painless cheek swab you can sample your own DNA. You'll submit the sample through our secure, private, and completely anonymous system, then log on to the project Web site to track your personal results online.
This is not a genealogy test and you won't learn about your great grandparents. You will learn, however, of your deep ancestry, the ancient genetic journeys and physical travels of your distant relatives.
To insure total anonymity you will be identified at all times only by your kit number, not by your name. There is no record, no database that links test results with the names of their contributors. If you lose the kit number there will be no way to access your genetic results.
As your own genetic ancestry is revealed you'll also see worldwide samples map humankind's shared genetic background around the world and through the ages.
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.
This process is optional and completely anonymous, but it's also important. Each of us has a part in the ancient story of humankind's genetic journey. Together we can tell the whole story before it's too late.
Order a Kit The Participation Kit costs U.S. $99.95 (plus shipping and handling and tax if applicable). The kit includes:
1. DVD with a Genographic Project overview hosted by Dr. Spencer Wells, visual instructions on how to collect a DNA sample using a cheek scraper, and a bonus feature program: the National Geographic Channel/PBS production The Journey of Man. 2. Exclusive National Geographic map illustrating human migratory history and created especially for the launch of the Genographic Project. 3. Buccal swab kit, instructions, and a self-addressed envelope in which to return your cheek swab sample. (You can download a pdf of instructions or the consent form. You will need Acrobat Reader.) 4. Detailed brochure about the Genographic Project, featuring stunning National Geographic photography 5. Confidential Genographic Project ID # (GPID) to anonymously access your results at this Web site
The purchase price also includes the cost of the testing and analysis—an expensive process—that will take place once your sample is sent in.
Return Your Kit Once you have completed the cheek scraping process, you will secure the scrapers inside the transport tubes, sign the informed consent form and mail the tubes and form off to the lab.
That's it! In about 4 to 6 weeks—the time necessary for the laboratory to correctly analyze your DNA—your results will be ready. In the meantime, visit the Web site to see where your sample is in the analysis process.
Get Your Results Samples will be analyzed for genetic "markers" found in mitochondrial DNA and on the Y chromosome. We will be performing two tests for the public participants:
Males: Y-DNA test. This test allows you to identify your deep ancestral geographic origins on your direct paternal line.
Females: Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). This tests the mtDNA of females to identify the ancestral migratory origins of your direct maternal line.
To be clear—these tests are not conventional genealogy. Your results will not provide names for your personal family tree or tell you where your great grandparents lived. Rather, they will indicate the maternal or paternal genetic markers your deep ancestors passed on to you and the story that goes with those markers.
Once your results are posted, you will be able to learn something about that story and the journey of your ancestors. The genetic profile you receive is more than a static set of data. It is like an ongoing subscription to your genetic history. Your profile might become more detailed as the Genographic Project amasses more data from around the world, so be sure to return to the Genographic Project Web site for project updates.
Public participation is critical to the Project's success. By purchasing a Genographic Project Public Participation Kit, you will not only contribute to the impact of this great endeavor, but you may discover something about your own genetic past as well.
A Note on Privacy To ensure the privacy of participants, we have built an anonymous analysis process. Your Participation Kit will be mailed with a randomly-generated, non-sequential Genographic Participant ID number (GPID). Although we will have mailed a Participation Kit to your address, we do not know the random code included in the Kit. When you send in your DNA sample with your consent form, they will only be identified by your GPID. Therefore, your cheek cells will be analyzed completely anonymously.
In order to access your test results, you will need to access the Genographic Project Web site and enter your GPID, so it is very important that you do not lose your GPID. See the Genographic Project Terms and Conditions for more information. Also, be sure to visit our FAQs.
For International Participants (outside the United States and Canada) Public participation may be restricted in some countries where the export of genetic material requires government approval. China is one country that has such restrictions in place. The Genographic Project will work with the relevant authorities to achieve the broadest level of public participation possible.
There are arguments about which is the ‘true’ Viking gene, R1b or ‘I’. I think they’re both.
Hello Blam. Got the female side results today and it came back as H. The deeper detail suggests that she identifies strongly with Norway (that is historically accurate), and before that from the region of the Caucasus. The report map shows that same longer term trail.
Looks like I have a lot more reading to do to understand the mtDNA ‘markers’ and the ‘fine grain’ numbers.
R1b and 'H' are the most common DNA haplogroups in Europe.
Got a message that said I was probably R1b1b2 so I authorized an additional test to confirm that, FWIW. Apparently they can drill down deeper into the data in some cases where they have a larger database to work with.
Also authorized deeper drilling into the H parameter to see what that shows. It is amazing (to me) that they can take a totally unknown genetic sample and identify the owner so accurately to a small known geographic spot on earth.
Seems like this business is moving so fast that what we know today may seem pretty primitive in a decade or two.
I expect so. Especially in the medical/health area.
[snip] National Geographic is having a program on Sunday about The ‘Human Family Tree.’ It will cover the results of the 350,000 DNA samples submitted by people around the world. [unsnip] http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/tv-schedule
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Are you part-Neanderthal?People of European descent may be 5% Neanderthal, according to a DNA study that counters the view that modern humans left Africa and replaced all other existing hominids. The same study, published in the latest issue of the journal PloS Genetics, also says West Africans could be related to an archaic human population... "Instead of a population that left Africa 100,000 years ago and replaced all other archaic human groups, we propose that this population interacted with another population that had been in Europe for much longer, maybe 400,000 years," says Vincent Plagnol... Using statistics and computer modelling, the researchers focused on linkage 'disequilibriums', or sections within genes that did not make sense if only modern human matings are considered... The scientists are not certain which early human group could have contributed to West African DNA, but both Europeans and Africans in the study showed about the same 5% archaic contribution. Neanderthals are believed to have originated in Africa around 400,000 years ago, but they left and then settled in Europe, hence the apparent lack of interaction with modern humans in Africa. Alan Templeton, professor of Evolutionary and Population Programs at the University of Michigan, has also conducted DNA studies and comes to similar conclusions... New technologies are being developed to sequence nuclear DNA from fossils, so in the near future, scientists may learn more about how modern human genes compare with those of archaic humans, like Neanderthals.
by Jennifer Viegas
Discovery News (via)
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Reminder. This program about DNA is coming on in about 15 minutes.
pleasepleasePLEASE?
My cousins and their parents immigrated to NZ from Texas in the early 50’s. My aunt and uncle have passed on but the cousins are pure Kiwis.
Our very own Tennessee Nana is a transplanted Kiwi!
Hi Nana! At what age did you leave NZ and which island (if you don’t mind me being nosy)? my brother and his wife are returning from NZ tomorrow.
i.e. upgraded to maximum number of what's it's to analyze.
Reminds me. I need to call them. They promised something about Native American findings they have yet to deliver on.
Some interesting map stuff.
And, one can connect up with likely distant relatives.
My ancient sources range as far afield as India, Balkins, Middle East, Scandinavia, England, Scotland, Ireland and Cherokee.
Thx.
I think the folks are honorable about privacy etc.
However, I don’t trust privacy at all in our era.
I would personally, not doubt that the globalists could have access to anything they wanted . . . and I’m fairly confident they are in the middle of this National Geographic connected project.
I don’t know why the globalists are that interested in DNA but purportedly, they are. Gets into a whole ‘nother realm I’ll spare you on this thread! LOL.
I did it anyway.
I think it’s a worthy fun project. I hope a lot of folks do it.
I should check back in on the website. Been a while. New stuff evolves out all the time as more people join.
When I upgraded to the highest levels of analysis, the eventually had to send me a new kit. No sweat. Quite honorable on all such things. I think it’s a good organization.
Back in 1965 . . . my boss advised me to check the Boards of Directors . . . re globalists and their reach . . .
The Nat Geo was full of them.
My haplo group is not that common, IIRC . . .
and there can be a paucity of the sort of information one is eager to see at the foundational level of analysis.
That’s one reason I upgraded to the maximum number of—keep forgetting the keyword—thingy’s to analyze.
If there’s not a lot of other people from around the world with some of your stuff, you won’t likely get a very robust amount of information. If there is, there will likely be more interesting bits of information.
You should at least get the “deep in Africa” origins from say 10’s of millions of years ago and a map showing your ancestors’ migrations. Mine was complex and interesting with threads coming, as I noted, as far away as India.
I wouldn’t expect to be snowed under with pages and pages of info.
Hard to say if it’s worth it to a given individual. Depends on the level of curiosity, I guess.
Sure.
Was to begin with.
However, such forces are well able to get DNA samples any number of ways, should they so wish, almost 24/7 anyway—if it’s a sufficient priority for them.
God is still God and always will be God. I’m still His to take care of, regardless.
I prayed He’d mess up any bad aims with all such however He chose to.
It’s a curiosity I’ve long had so I felt the risk was worth it.
The PTB know where I live and what I’m about without DNA.
It was a globalist designed and implemented project from it’s beginning.
It spouted the globalist propaganda from the beginning.
It was used to help shape public and intellectual values and priorities from the beginning.
It has ALWAYS BEEN a tool of globalists seeking a tyrannical global government.
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