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Ancient DNA: Svante Pääbo interview Admixture: Another ancestry analysis article . Paper published back in September 2007 in PLoS Geneti...

Annals of Human Genetics 2008 / OnlineEarly doi:10.1111/j.1469-1809.2008.00440.x Y-Chromosome Analysis of Ancient Hungarian and Two Modern H...

Genome-wide association studies: slightly breathless article from the AP; why they can fail at Genetic Future Lebanese Christians and Mus...

Was William Paca (a signer of the Declaration of Independence) of Italian descent, as claimed by many "Italian-Americans" and Ita...

23andMe has added a three-population (Europe/Asia/Africa) admixture analysis feature. According to a 23andMe employee, "[a] white pape...

In a comment at majorityrights.com, Guessedworker identifies what he claims are the "four possible positions for an ethnically- or rac...

The article is open-access : Effect of genetic divergence in identifying ancestral origin using HAPAA Andreas Sundquist, Eugene Fratkin, Chu...

Results of ancient DNA research on the 40 Bronze Age skeletons recovered from Lichtenstein cave in Lower Saxony have been trickling out f...

Eur J Hum Genet. 2008 Mar 5 [Epub ahead of print] Quantifying the increase in average human heterozygosity due to urbanisation. Rudan I, Car...

It is beyond me how anyone could take seriously a study whose authors at one point estimate Finns are of >95% Neolithic Near Eastern orig...

Rienzi seems to want to simultaneously to argue: (1) Genetic differences between Northern and Southern Europeans are of little importance. (...

I queried deCODE about their methodology and future plans. Here are the key points from the reply I received: Admixture calculations are pe...

Apropos a discussion thread at a desi site which shall not be linked. Back in 2003, geneticist Peter Forster came out with some outlandish c...

Since HLA genes constitute a relatively tiny portion of the genome and are subject to strong selection pressure, I give comparatively little...

Rienzi, you are grasping at straws. I posted the abstract on the East/West European division in dental morphology close to two days ago, bu...

Rienzi takes issue with "unfavorable comparison" of DNAprint's efforts to higher-resolution exploration of genetic structure. ...

Rienzi draws the attention of unnamed "phenotypists" (*) to the following passage from the latest DNAprint publication (text quot...

doi:10.1016/j.gene.2008.01.007 Experimental assessment of bioenergetic differences caused by the common European mitochondrial DNA haplogrou...

I don't necessarily agree that it's "unlikely that population differences in reproductive endocrine function are the result of ...

Selected abstracts from 2008 AAPA meeting: Interaction in pigmentation genes creates variation in brown irises. E.E. Quillen1, S. Beleza2,...