genetics

According to a new study, consuming alcohol has been attributed to seven types of cancer. Moreover, it can cause mutations in stem cells, and damage chromosomes. When we consume alcohol, the body produces a chemical known as acetaldehyde, which causes genetic damage. Acetaldehyde is specifically...

Ivan Mestrovic is the famous Croatian sculptor whose art is still displayed in some prominent locations in America, Croatia, and Serbia. His talent maybe related to his DNA. What do we know, if anything, about his autosomal or Y-DNA? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Me%C5%A1trovi%C4%87

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25173 Despite broad agreement that the Americas were initially populated via Beringia, the land bridge that connected far northeast Asia with northwestern North America during the Pleistocene epoch, when and how the peopling of the Americas occurred remains...

Personally, I've never once in my life received a flu shot. Not that I have reservations against it, I just... never got one. I really don't know enough about the vaccine to have an opinion. Nevertheless, I've only contracted the flu a couple of times in my whole life. If my job required that I...

I wouldn't part ways with money for this on myself, personally. But I guess it would be a nice thoughtful gift for someone who really loves genetics. Though it would spoil the surprise if you had to get their saliva sample first...

I announced two months ago the launch of the One Family One World Project, a partnership between Eupedia and Living DNA. I have been very busy lately, but finally found time to present the project on Eupedia. My contribution to the project was to delimit the boundaries of the proposed genetic...

Very interesting, considering the spread of language and culture verses the genetic implications. I need to read this a bit further when I get a chance.

GOOD! despite Chuck Schumer's dumb war on DNA testing, people are not listening.

Irish DNA Atlas: Revealing Fine-Scale Population Structure & History within Ireland...

Merry Christmas! Scientists will conduct DNA analysis on the bones of Saint Nicholas.

I am excited to announce that Eupedia is teaming up with Living DNA to launch the largest genetic ancestry project to date, which will cover most of the world's countries, regions and ethnic groups. It is called the One Family One World Project (see blog post) and it aims to initially recruit...

When police in London recently trialled a new facial recognition system, they made a worrying and embarrassing mistake. At the Notting Hill Carnival, the technology made roughly 35 false matches between known suspects and members of the crowd, with one person “erroneously” arrested...

For those who still thought of Neanderthals as brutish retards, think again. It was already known that they had bigger brains than us, they could talk, buried their dead long before Homo sapiens, used medicinal plants, made and used painting and jewellery, and that they may have invented...

Just my luck. I received my 23andme DNA spit-kit in the mail today. But I'm currently taking Amox-Clav 875 mgs for a case of strep throat I caught last weekend with 8 and half days to go. :annoyed: Good thing I bothered to look this up before I used the kit. I should probably give it about a...

Here are some videos I found on YouTube, with celebrity DNA test results from various companies. Share some more if you can find them. Fox & Friends hosts Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade and Ainsley Earhardt MyHeritage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfCItF3YhvU Brock O'Hurn ( A.K.A. Thor)...

https://blog.insito.me/a-brief-history-of-consumer-genomics-c0b5519b59f2 I thought this was an interesting blog. It gives a brief history of consumer genomics. 2013 was a year that consumer DNA testing rose exponentially. As of this month, 8,000,000 people have been tested between FTDNA, Nat...

https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/202904600-What-is-the-difference-between-genotyping-and-sequencing- https://www.helix.com/blog/dna-technologies-genotyping-vs-sequencing/ https://www.illumina.com/clinical/illumina_clinical_laboratory/genomics-101/reading-genome.html...

I now have the results of several Belgian people who tested with Living DNA. All got a bit of Scandinavian, and some got a from 1 to 3% of French, Basque, West Balkans, North Anatolian or Kurdish. But what really stood out is that all of them had considerable amount of Italian DNA, and in all...

I noticed that many Japanese people score between 0.5% and 2% of South Asian admixture in various calculators, including Dodecad K12 and K12b and HarappaWorld K16. I thought at first that it might be a misattribution of very ancient admixture linked to Y-haplogroups C and D, but I recently saw...

GEDmatch, list of ancient samples with kit numbers. Here are kit numbers of ancient samples on Gedmatch, from my database. Please post kits with description of samples, and all you know about these samples. Sorry, I didn't have time to put it in a coherent database. M825671 I1293 Iran...