Archive for the tag 'Haplogroup'

Jan 04 2010

23andMe Labs

Published by ErinC under news

In 2009, we added six tools to 23andMe Labs, our technology sandbox where we showcase experimental features. In case you haven’t played around with them yet, here’s a brief review:
Health Labs
Reynolds Risk Score
This tool calculates a 10-year risk for heart-attack using information including cholesterol and blood pressure.
ABO Blood Type
There actually are more than 25 different [...]

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Oct 23 2009

Revealed: The Genetic Origin and History of an Elusive Anabaptist Community

Published by AnneH under news

There are over 50,000 people in North America who define themselves as Hutterites, though you probably have never met one. One of the main branches of the Anabaptists, Hutterites live in self-sustaining communities throughout the rural northwestern United States and Canada.
Like their sister branches, the Amish and the Mennonites, the history and culture of [...]

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Oct 14 2009

23andMe Scientists Harness Linguistics to Describe Origin and History of Paternal Haplogroup J1e

Published by AnneH under news

The Near East – a swath of land that encompasses the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, and everywhere in between – has been populated by humans longer than anywhere else in the world save Africa. It is where agriculture was born and spread into Eurasia. It is where the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt [...]

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Jun 11 2009

23andMe’s New and Improved Paternal Haplogroups

Published by AnneH under inside 23andMe, news

Science is dynamic and ever changing. As new research is published, theories get revised, and hypotheses retested. The field of genetic ancestry is no exception: The flurry of published research just in the last five years has been staggering, and we can now piece together the histories of many groups from nearly all parts of [...]

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Jan 08 2009

One if by Land, Two if by Sea: New Genetics Study Indicates Multiple Paleo-Indian Migration Routes

Published by AnneH under big questions, genetics 101, news

It seems like new discoveries about the peopling of the Americas are a dime a dozen these days.  Without a doubt, the journey those first Americans took from the frozen wastelands of Asia down the Pacific coast into the Americas has been an active research subject for many decades.  Archaeologists, linguists, and now geneticists have [...]

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