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In 1997, a study was published in the Journal Nature demonstrating that a startling percentage of Jewish males who shared an oral tradition of being Cohanim (Jewish priests), also shared the same Y chromosome signature.  The males that matched this...

Results just returned from the lab for kit number 156136 and his yDNA matches another member of the project who tested through Ancestry.com.  These two men trace their Phillips roots back to Dutchess and Ulster Counties, New York in the early 1800s. ...

Here is a link to an article about the possible practice of polygyny (a man mating with many women) in Ireland and Wales.  Polygyny is the British word for polygamy.  The author of this article, Dr. J. S. Plant, is trying to explain a populous...

Don't look now, but we may be about to enter the genome-based economy, according to an article by Jack M. Germain in TechNewsworld at this link.

The August 2009 Phillips DNA project newsletter  has been posted on the News page of this website.  Just click on the News tab above and you can elect to read the newsletter in plain text or PDF format.  This month's newsletter contains an update on...