Personal Results from the The Genographic Project
The main aims of the National Geographic Genographic Project are to study human migration and population genetics by collecting DNA from people around the world. One way individuals can participate is to buy a $99.95 kit with which you can collect your own DNA and track your results online.
A reporter from Singapore’s Todayonline was surprised to find that her DNA mapped to haplogroup H, which is associated with more than half of all Europeans, many North Africans and Middle Easterners, and some Northern Indians and central Asians. She apparently belonged to an understudied branch of haplogroup H.
She reflects on the tendency of her mother and others to believe in the superiority of “pure” Chinese bloodlines:
How, even today, we define ourselves by race, when it is nothing more than an ephemeral set of skin-shallow characteristics.
And as science can now show, at the genetic level, a sallow-skinned, dark-eyed woman of Chinese descent can have more in common with a pale-skinned, blue-eyed European than one thinks.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if genetic information could bring racial harmony and understanding? After all, everyone has DNA.
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1 opinion for Personal Results from the The Genographic Project
robert o'neill
Dec 28, 2007 at 7:59 am
I think this project is so cool. I am having some dna testing done, for personel reasons. I am an adoptee. At any rate i would be glad to particapate in this project it seems to be very interesting
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