Re: [asa] I'm African!

I suppose that with Y chromosome testing all of us guys are going to be traced back to Africa.

That is an interesting website.
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: David Opderbeck
  To: drsyme@cablespeed.com
  Cc: asa@calvin.edu
  Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 2:52 PM
  Subject: Re: [asa] I'm African!

  Y chromosome (see http://www.nationalgeographic.com/genographic for info on the project).

  On 8/8/06, drsyme@cablespeed.com <drsyme@cablespeed.com> wrote:
    What type of testing did you have? mtDNA? Ychromosome?
    Autosomal?

    Such surprising results are not uncommon.

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5438960

    On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 14:30:25 -0400
    "David Opderbeck" < dopderbeck@gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently submitted a sample to the National Geographic
>genographic
> project. To my great delight and surprise, the results
>put me in the very
> first haplotype group, suggesting my deep ancestry is
>directly among the
> first group of modern humans to migrate out of Africa.
> My family background
> is just about entirely German, so I was expecting to
>fall into one of the
> middle European groups. Very cool!

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Received on Tue Aug 8 23:37:21 2006