crates | October 7, 2008
See September 8 blog for an introduction to this topic. As I talked about before, the Y chromosome is only passed down from father to son, and can be used to find out information about a male’s paternal ancestry. This chromosome contains about 58 million base pairs containing 86 genes or 27 depending on whom you [...]
crates | September 8, 2008
For many years I have been interested in the history of my family. The advent of computers has sped up this process and recently a new tool has been added to the process–DNA analysis. Recently when I was in Texas, I noticed that the genealogy web site, Ancestry.com, had a half price sale [...]
crates | June 21, 2007
Sometimes in an effort to understand something, I’ll read about it and make an outline for myself which helps me to grasp the main ideas. I’ve been reading about the Y chromosome, and about some of the implications of recent research about this gender determining chromosome. You may already know that sex in humans is [...]