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Human Population Genetics Laboratory - http://hpgl.stanford.edu/
Located in the Department of Genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Includes personnel profiles, projects, and publications available in pdf format. |
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Trace Your Ancestry with DNA - http://www.dnaancestryproject.com
Tracing paternal and maternal ancestral roots using DNA. |
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Bradshaw Foundation: Journey of Mankind - http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/
Stephen Oppenheimer provides a graphic display of the peopling of the world, tracking routes through a synthesis of chromosome evidence, archaeology, climatology and fossil study. |
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Y Chromosomes Point to Native American Adam - http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/sci;283/5407/1439
An article based on Y-DNA studies suggests that all Native Americans can be traced back to a male founder who lived 20,000 years ago. |
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PhyloTree.org - http://www.phylotree.org
Provides a phylogenetic tree of global human mitochondrial DNA variation. |
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National Geographic: Documentary Redraws Humans' Family Tree - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/12/1212_021213_journeyofman.html
Geneticist Spencer Wells claims that all humans alive today are descended from a single man who lived in Africa around 60,000 years ago, in the Journey of Man documentary. |
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Genebase - http://www.genebase.com
Using DNA testing to trace deep ancestral origins and population migrational patterns. |
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People of the British Isles - http://www.peopleofthebritishisles.org/
A study by the University of Oxford. Blood samples from 3,500 people from rural populations throughout the British Isles will be used to look at the patterns of differences in people’s genetic make up around the UK. |
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Science Spectra: Why Y? - http://www.ucl.ac.uk/tcga/ScienceSpectra-pages/SciSpect-14-98.html
Neil Bradman and Mark Thomas look at the Y chromosome in the study of human evolution, migration and prehistory. |
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BBC: Tanzania, Ethiopia Origin for Humans - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2909803.stm
Genetic studies have helped scientists identify the region of East Africa from where it is believed modern humans came. |
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Prospect Magazine: Myths of British Ancestry - http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7817
Stephen Oppenheimer declares that ancestors of the British and Irish were Basques, not Celts. The Celts were not wiped out by the Anglo-Saxons, in fact neither had much impact on the genetic stock of these islands. |
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BBC: Europe's Seven Female Founders - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/719376.stm
Article and links regarding new genetic research which shows that everyone in Europe is descended from just seven women. |
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Genetic Survey of Wirral and West Lancashire - http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~sczsteve/survey.htm
Professor Steve Harding of Nottingham University heads a team looking for evidence for Viking descendants in this part of Britain. |
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World Haplogroups - http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mcdonald/WorldHaplogroupsMaps.pdf
Maps of the world showing the distribution of Y chromosome and the MTDNA haplogroups throughout the world, with references, by J. Douglas McDonald. |
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Population Genetics for First Year Students - http://www.uic.edu/classes/bms/bms655/lesson13.html
Basic information on population genetics. |
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National Geographic: The Genographic Project - https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/
A 5-year study by The National Geographic Society, IBM, geneticist Spencer Wells, and the Waitt Family Foundation to compile a genetic atlas. Project outline and methods, how to participate, news, genetics overview and an interactive atlas of the human journey. |
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BBC: Genetic 'Adam Never Met Eve' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/999030.stm
Genetic studies suggest our most common paternal and maternal ancestors walked the planet more than 80,000 years apart. |
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Molecular Evolution and Population Genetics - http://www-hto.usc.edu/papers/abstracts/lists/molecularEvolution.html
Links to a series of papers available as extracts and for full text download, from the University of Southern California. |
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The Center for Genetic Anthropology, University College London - http://www.ucl.ac.uk/tcga/
Pursues research on the evolution and migrations of human populations in north Africa, east Africa, the Near East, Asia and Europe. Profile of staff, research themes and presentations. |
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The Human Genome Diversity Project - http://www.stanford.edu/group/morrinst/hgdp.html
Stanford University describes this international project that seeks to understand the diversity and unity of the entire human species. Includes a summary of the purpose of the project and of the planning work done. |