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The October 2010 Phillips DNA Project newsletter has been posted on our website under the News tab. You can elect to read it in plain text or PDF format. This month there is information on how to set up a customized online discussion group, a...
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Two of Christopher Columbus' shipmates were perhaps the first Africans to set foot in the New World, a new study has found. Using DNA analysis of human bones excavated from a graveyard in the Dominican Republic, the study adds weight to the theory that...
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The following tests were underway at FTDNA as of 26 September 2010:
Due Date, Batch #, Kit #, Type of Test
09/24/2010, 370, 60411, Refine 37 to 67
10/11/2010, 375, 64118, Backbone
10/15/2010, 374, 186469, Y-DNA 67
10/18/2010, 376, 181543, Deep...
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Most DNA testing labs collect DNA from cheek cells, saliva, and sometimes blood of living subjects. Many people have asked me if hair or other artifacts can be used to recover DNA. Here is a link to a website that discusses that subject.
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The University of Oxford has been given funding to collect blood samples from 3,500 people from rural populations throughout the British Isles. These will be used to look at the patterns of differences in people's DNA around the UK. The project has...