I do wonder about his using his own computer program to validate his own research, but hey, perhaps thats just me remembering the GIGO theory.
Well, notice that the guy is at Brigham Young university, which is run by the Mormons, who are way in the forefront on population genetics. I think this is for religious reasons, they believe in post-mortem baptism, so are looking for ancestors to baptize.
I have a freebie genetics kit fom a Mormon group asking me to give them a DNA sample and my family tree -- several branches of which I can trace back ten, eleven, twelve generations, and pretty much every branch back to one country or another in Europe. But I wonder what else they'll do with it? Makes me just a tiny bit paranoid. If I give them a sample, who owns my DNA?
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