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Monday, December 25, 2017

Geno 2.0 Holiday Gift Guide 2017


Geno 2.0 By National Geographic helps you to discover migration paths your ancient ancestors followed by a breakdown of your regional ancestry by percentage, going as far back as 500,000 years. Reveal the anthropological story of your ancestors; from here you live right now. A percentage of how much your DNA is similar to our ancient cousins, the Netherlands. Learn which historical geniuses, like Benjamin Franklin and Nikola Tesla, you might be related to.  The way it works is to register your kit, collect your saliva and then place the saliva sample in the box and mail back. Since its launch in 2005, National Geographic’s Genographic Project has used advanced DNA analysis and worked with indigenous communities to help answer fundamental questions about where humans originated and how we came to populate the Earth. Now, cutting-edge technology is enabling us to shine a powerful new light on our collective past. 


By joining more than 800,000 people who have already taken part in the Genographic Project, you can learn more about yourself than you ever thought possible.
 My Opinion: I found this very easy to do and I am also curious about my ancestors as I am aware of some of my heritage but not all of it. This is a great gift for anyone who may want to know more about their ancestors.

When DNA passes from one generation to the next, most of it is mixed around by the processes that make each of us unique. But, some parts of the DNA remains largely intact generation after generation, altered only occasionally by random mutations. These intact stretches of DNA can be used to trace your ancestry back tens of thousands of years. National Geographic uses samples collected as part of the Genographic Project as references to determine which populations your DNA most closely matches. In addition, genetic markers from your mitochondrial DNA are used to trace your maternal lineage, because we all get our mitochondria from our mother. Genetic markers from the Y chromosome (the sex chromosome found in men) can be used to trace the paternal lineage for those that inherited a Y chromosome from their father.

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