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By: Arch

Arch — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:24:56 +0000

Any news from here about new algorithms? What about autosomal DNA? Was this considered?

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By: rypitch

rypitch — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:44:53 +0000

This is great stuff, yet I wish the studies would give insights for me personally.

By: Eric Berman

Eric Berman — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:03:57 +0000

Something sounds awfully fishy about this. If the data they were crunching already contained information about the country of origin of each of the individuals represented by the data, then all they were really doing was getting the computer to crunch many, many numbers, as computers do so well. The article says “there are limitations to this first genetic map because the DNA samples used were from people whose grandparents came from the same country. So right now, if a person has a mixed heritage, for example, their mother comes from Spain and their father comes from France, the map would place this person in Italy . . . .”
For a Europe–and a world–experiencing the most far-ranging migrations in history, and for increasingly ethnically and “racially” hybrid populations, the information would be given to huge errors. If I were Barack Obama, for example, I would probably appear to have emerged from North Africa since I am the child of a European American mother and a Kenyan father. Better hurry up and use the system before it becomes even more irrelevant than Social Darwinism.

By: Cristina

Cristina — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:05:58 +0000

Astonishing, really.

By: Tom_Fishman

Tom_Fishman — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:05:28 +0000

Awesome!

By: Joyce_Gramza

Joyce_Gramza — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:02:46 +0000

They say they are working on an algorithm to tease out more complex origins. This map was just the first.

By: Joyce Gramza

Joyce Gramza — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:44:31 +0000

They say they are working on an algorithm to tease out more complex origins. This map was just the first.

By: Tom_Fishman

Tom_Fishman — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:00:25 +0000

Pretty cool, but it's a bummer that these studies are limited for those (like me) who would seemingly find it most useful/interesting, i.e., those who descend from a mix of countries. Chances are, if both of your parents are from the same country, the genetic information isn't telling you anything you don't already know, right?