For those who are interested, according to someone on twitter:
DIYgenomics: @23andMe $99 discount returns; code B84YAG to be live 10 AM Wednesday for the new v3 chip
The updated chip is said to be
the Illumina OmniExpress Plus:
The original press release described a chip with coverage of 733,202 markers, while the enhanced "Plus" version appears to cover greater than 900,000 markers. Either way, it is a significant upgrade from the previous 580,000 SNPs.
Update: Discount code works. New chip tests 1,000,000+ SNPs.
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Just ordered it, $99 is a good deal, but that's what they should cost. Some of these others charge way too much, deCODEme wants $2000. I'll spend the equivalent of a night out, but not a used car!
After shipping and monthly fees for a year comes to $173.95.
Awesome. Just got four.
There's a code from Gizmodo in case the other one doesn't work:
GIZMODO99
Supposed to be good through tomorrow.
Off-topic, but possibly of interest:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/russell-t2.1.1.html
A new study has claimed that a Native American woman might have voyaged to Europe with Vikings five centuries before Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
Analysing a type of DNA passed only from mother to child, the scientists found more than 80 living Icelanders with a genetic variation similar to the one found mostly in Native Americans, reports the National Geographic News.
http://news.bioscholar.com/2010/11/before-columbus-viking-indian-child-may-have-been-born-in-europe.html
Sale still good through 11/29.
"A new study has claimed that a Native American woman might have voyaged to Europe with Vikings five centuries before Columbus sailed the ocean blue."
I wrote about that study two weeks ago here. In short, the data demonstrates almost the opposite of what the authors suggest: Icelandic C1 is almost certainly not of North American origin.
"A new study has claimed that a Native American woman might have voyaged to Europe with Vikings five centuries before Columbus sailed the ocean blue."
French archaeologist claimed to have found Viking runic inscriptions in and around the major civilizations of Central America, meaning ancient group of Scandinavians might have made it to the Americas sometime between the 700s and 1100s when the Vikings were most active. The Mesoamerican god Quetzalcoatl is often depicted as a bearded 'White God,' or red bearded God, a feathered serpent. Do the research about Vikings reaching Mesoamerica around 1000 AD or even before.
All this is supposed to play out coming up here in 2012 with the 'return of Quetzalcoatl.'
Many of the Mayan peoples have historically worshipped a god called Votan, and many of them even changed the name of the third day of their week to Votan in honor of that god. Their records indicate that they learned of the worship of Votan from a people who came to the region on the Gulf Coast between the Yucatan Peninsula and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec from the island that we now call Cuba, and had come from even further north. A core of them actually settled in the northeastern portion of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
Furthermore, at least one Mayan temple has a mural (or at least had a mural — it's faded considerably since its discovery and is now invisible to the naked eye) dating back to around 1100 AD that depicts yellow-haired, light skinned men on longboats lined with decorated round shields and dragonhead prows fighting (and losing to) the Mayan population, which is depicted as dark-haired and -skinned. The appearance of the ships in this mural (I've seen facsimiles of it) is remarkably similar to the appearance of the Norman ships in the contemporary Bayeux Tapestry.
I definitely believe that Germanics reached what is now southern Mexico in fairly large numbers during the Viking Age, and I would not be surprised at all if worship of Quetzalcoatl began with contact between the American Indians and those Germanic visitors.
However, I also would not be surprised if the worship of Quetzalcoatl began even earlier through contact with other Caucasoids.
- "Was Quetzalcoatl a Viking?" - http://forums.skadi.net/archive/index.php/t-62948.html
They extended through Dec. 25 no code required http://www.23andme.com
bumping this because sale's still on a few more days.
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