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Since the Dutchess married into the Royal family, much has been made of her "humble" roots, with coal miners, a road sweeper and even a prisoner among her ancestors.  But when her first child is born next year, the third-in-line to the throne's...

Genetic blogger Dave Dowell has written an interesting blog with regard to the current Time Magazine cover story about DNA testing for medical traits.  Please be advised that this is not the same kind of DNA test utilized in our Phillips Y-DNA...

Vincent Plagnol from the Genomes Unzipped blog has written an interesting blog post on the misleading claims he feels are being propagated with regard to the Britains DNA project.  Click here to read this interesting post.

In recent decades, DNA tests were mainly used to prove paternity.  But since 2000, a handful of companies have commercialized tests that connect a wider array of relatives, sometimes going back centuries to find common ancestors.  As recently as 2007,...