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Faces of America and Genetic Genealogy Testing

Mar 5, 2010 8:02pm

Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings (“I’m Puzzled by DNA Claims on ‘Faces of America’”) writes about the fourth and last episode of “Faces of America,” a PBS documentary series investigating the ancestry of several famous people in America. This fourth episode included several different types of genetic genealogy to examine the...

Pathway Genomics: A Review

Mar 3, 2010 3:57am

Kevin Davies, Ph.D., currently the Editor-in-Chief of Bio-IT World, recently wrote an article about Pathway Genomics in which he reviewed the company’s Health Test product (see “Pathway and Me: Consumer Genomics Firm Delivers First Results”): “Earlier this year, I submitted a saliva sample to Pathway to get a feel for how...

Thank You: The Genetic Genealogist Named Among Family Tree Magazine’s 40 Best Genealogy Blogs

Feb 23, 2010 5:20am

Late last fall, Family Tree Magazine requested nominations for the best genealogy blogs, and then opened voting for the nominated list. Yesterday, they announced the winners of the voting. Diane Haddad wrote about the announcement on the Genealogy Insider blog, and Maureen Taylor wrote the article that will appear in...

Announcing the GET Conference 2010

Feb 18, 2010 6:07am

Daniel Vorhaus of the Genomics Law Report is also a member of the steering committee of the GET (“Genomes, Environments, Traits) Conference 2010. This unique conference, to be held on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 will gather together some of the biggest names in personal genomics, as well as most...

Announcing Family Finder - An Autosomal Test From Family Tree DNA

Feb 16, 2010 10:41am

In a move that puts it in more direct competition with personal genomics companies such as 23andMe and deCODEme, the genetic genealogy testing company Family Tree DNA announced today that it will offer a large-scale autosomal test for genealogical purposes. The test, which will be available to the public in...

Columbia Professor Alondra Nelson Reviews The PBS Series “Faces of America”

Feb 16, 2010 5:24am

In October 2008, I reviewed an article by Dr. Alondra Nelson in the journal Social Studies of Science entitled “Bio Science: Genetic Genealogy Testing and the Pursuit of African Ancestry” (Social Studies of Science 2008 38: 759-783). The article was about the complex interpretation of the results of...

Personalized Genomics: A Very Personal Post

Jan 7, 2010 3:47am

Both 23andMe and deCODEme (using my 23andMe data) have interpreted my SNP results to indicate that I have a greatly increased genetic risk for Type 2 Diabetes. This post interprets the information from both companies and applies some of the primary research that the companies relied upon to predict my...

My Tweets of the Week

Dec 11, 2009 6:39am

Just took the @23andMe Longevity Survey - http://bit.ly/8DYAKC about 14 hours ago @tgoetz: http://bit.ly/4rkgsW - looking forward to get a fitbit; finally a scientific way to tell whether it really was a bad night’s sleep about 14 hours ago I would have guessed more - “Americans Consume 34GB of [...]...

Hacking Admixed 23andMe Ancestry Paintings

Nov 22, 2009 11:00pm

DAVIDE at the European Genetics and Anthropology Blog has an interesting post regarding 23andMe’s Ancestry Painting, at “Taking a closer look at your inter-continental ancestry results at 23andMe.” In the post, he describes how to “rummage through the Flash data behind the “Ancestry Painting” presentation” to learn more about the...

New Issue of the Journal of Genetic Genealogy

Nov 22, 2009 9:05am

Whit Athey has announced publication of the Fall 2009 issue of the Journal of Genetic Genealogy. This is Whit’s last issue as Editor, and I’d like to extend my sincere appreciation to him and all the work he has put into JoGG over the past 5 years. Every issue requires...