Middle Eastern citizen science project from the University of Leicester

[DevonHistorian]

If you do have a medically informative mutation then this will be shared by all your matrilineal relatives. However, as your sequence is being donated anonymously then they will not be able to determine that it affects them unless they also get their mtDNA tested. If you have a novel mutation that has...

[DevonHistorian]

If you contribute to FTDNA's mitochondrial DNA research programme then your mtDNA sequence could be used in a peer-reviewed paper and your sequence would be published anonymously on GenBank with information about your ancestral origins. My sequence was one of several thousand used by Dr Behar in this...

[DevonHistorian]

The University of Leicester has announced an exciting new collaboration with citizen scientists. For the first stage of this project they are seeking participation from citizen scientists from the Middle East who have taken a BigY test at Family Tree DNA or a similar test elsewhere. You can find details...

[DevonHistorian]

This paper from Eran Elhaik et al has been heavily criticised. The GPS methodology is severely flawed. See this paper from Flegontov et al in response to Elhaik et al:

https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/8/7/2259/2467022

See also the response from Marion Aptroot which...

[DevonHistorian]

I've written a couple of blog posts with my thoughts on the subject of autosomal DNA triangulation and how to use it responsibly.

The first part looks at the basics of triangulating with known close relatives:

http://cruwys.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01...mal-dna-triang...

[DevonHistorian]

Thank you Ann for that very interesting article. I've now added the link to the Wiki pages on IBD and IBS and will be sharing your article widely. There are some very difficult concepts to understand in autosomal DNA testing.

[DevonHistorian]

Thank you PraireLad for sharing the results of your very interesting study with us. I've included a link to this thread and your study in the ISOGG Wiki page on IBD in the section on false positive matching:

http://www.isogg.org/wiki/Identical_...sitive_matches
...

[DevonHistorian]

I'm glad the blog post was of some help. I like the way the Genographic Project allow you to compare your results against reference populations. I wish FTDNA would let us do the same.

We each inherit different segments of DNA from our parents. If the Jewish DNA doesn't show up at GedMatch...

[DevonHistorian]

In case it's of interest I've done a comparison of my admixture results from FTDNA, 23andMe and AncestryDNA:

http://cruwys.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05...ults-from.html

I've also done a comparison of MyOrigins results across three generations of my family:...

[DevonHistorian]

Can this personal debate not be taken to a different thread. None of this has anything to do with the subject of this book.

[DevonHistorian]

The journal Human Biology has published five reviews of Nicholas Wade's book and made them all available on open access. See this article for details:

http://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/news-e...me-inheritance

You can download the...

[DevonHistorian]

You might like to read the comments and compilation of articles on this subject on the UCL website:

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mace-lab/debunking/theories

[DevonHistorian]

Who Do You Think You Are? Live takes place next week at the NEC in Birmingham.

For further information about the show see the website:

http://www.whodoyouthinkyouarelive.com/

There is a great line-up of speakers in the Family Tree DNA workshop with a mixture...

[DevonHistorian]

This programme was just an advertorial for CymruDNAWales, a companion website to BritainsDNA/ScotlandsDNA.

I've written two blog posts on the subject:

http://cruwys.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02...wales-s4c.html

http://cruwys.blogspot.c...

[DevonHistorian]

I'm also getting a lot of gateway timeouts when accessing the FTDNA website using Google Chrome. It's been a sporadic problem for about a week now. I'm now having to use Firefox instead. The problem seems to be specific to FTDNA and no other websites are affected.