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 read. [...]
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Tags: DNA, DNA testing, haplogroup, nature, R1b haplogroup, Short Tandem Repeats, STR, y chromosome
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 on [...]
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Tags: DNA, genealogy, maternal ancestry, mDNA, mitochondrial DNA, nature, paternal ancestry, y chromosome