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Want to live 100+ years? You may need unusually good DNA repair. Click here to read more in Big Think.

DNA has upended neat and tidy accounts of the peopling of the American continents. Click here to read more in Scientific American.

Member Y-DNA Tests in Progress at FTDNA as of 4/30/2021

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

5/31/2021      1187               151181           Y-DNA111
5/31/2021      1187               955020           Y-DNA37                  
6/02/2021      1188               572524           Y-DNA111
6/7/2021         1189               794161           Y-DNA111

EXPLANATION OF TESTS:

Y-DNA Test:...

The fossil skull of a woman in Czechia (the Czech Republic) has provided the oldest modern human genome yet reconstructed, representing a population that formed before the ancestors of present-day Europeans and Asians split apart. Click here to...

The first genetic signature for Clan MacDougall, MacDonald and MacAllister was discovered and published in 2005 by researchers at the University of Oxford, and since then, the US-based Clan Donald DNA Project has enabled thousands of present-day...