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Between 2% and 4% of the genetic blueprint of present-day non-Africans came from Neanderthals, it is now believed.  Gene types that influence disease in people today were picked up through interbreeding with Neanderthals, a major study in Nature...

Phillips Tests in Progress at FTDNA as of 01/30/2014

Due Date, Batch #, Kit #, Type of Test

 02/12/2014, 545, 283893, Refine 12 to 67 markers

02/20/2014, 546, N116909, Z2961

02/15/2014, 549, 314225, Y-DNA 12

02/20/2014, 549, 91742, Refine 37 to...

You wait centuries for the discovery of a royal body … and then two come along at once.  A year after the remains of Richard III turned up under a car park in Leicester, archaeologists have found a piece of a pelvis that could belong to Alfred the...

Everyone who survived the 1912 sinking of the Titanic is now dead, and now one of the tragedy's oldest mysteries has been laid to rest: DNA tests confirm that the sensational claim by a woman who said she survived the sinking was all wet.  Click ...

Here is a link to a rather sensationalized story in the UK's Daily Mail on do-it-yourself DNA test kits being sold in the UK.