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The following tests were underway at FTDNA as of 30 October 2011:

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

11/02/2011, 430, 210403, Refine 37 to 67 markers and Deep Clade

11/07/2011, 428, 198908, Refine 37 to 67 markers

11/09/2011, 431, 180250,...

Pedra Furada in northeastern Brazil represents possibly the oldest known human site in the Americas. Since C-14 dates of 48-32,000 BP were reported in a Nature article (Guidon and Delibrias 1986), the site's Paleoindian components have been highly...

Dr Neeta Tailor is an anaesthetist working at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Wales. Dr Tailor recently treated a friend of Genomes Unzipped members (referred to here as Patient X) who required emergency surgery following some unusual and fairly...

The Genealogical Society of Ireland and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland has launched an important All-Ireland project to create a collection of DNA samples from individuals of Irish origin, which will be used to explore human genetic...

The following tests were underway at FTDNA as of 23 October 2011:

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

10/19/2011, 428, 198908, Refine 37 to 67 markers

11/02/2011, 430, 210403, Refine 37 to 67 markers and Deep Clade

11/09/2011, 431, 180250,...