Genographic

The Genographic Project: In partnership with National Geographic, IBM have designed this project to find out where we humans came from, and how we got here.

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Explorer-in-Residence with the National Geographic Society, working on their Genographic Project, which traces human migration patterns by studying DNA markers.

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“Different populations carry distinct genetic markers,” explains the Genographic Project Web site.

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“Different populations carry distinct genetic markers,” explains the Genographic Project Web site.

Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010

The Genographic Project is working against the clock to create a library of DNA through which we can read the story of our origins.

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The Y-DNA results I obtained through Family Tree DNA and the Genographic Project were able to tell me a great deal about the earliest history of my ancestors—people whose names we will never know, but whose migration patterns are becoming clearer over time.

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I also had tried the IBM Genographic Project, a collaboration between IBM and the National Geographic Society.6 I mailed in my cheek swab, which for $99 would be checked for a dozen or so variants on my Y chromosome.

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The Genographic Project is working against the clock to create a library of DNA through which we can read the story of our origins.

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Avey was also encouraged by the growing popularity of the IBM Genographic Project.

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In addition to gathering the genetic code of far-flung tribes in the Amazon, the Genographic Project is also asking people around the world to donate their DNA anonymously to the project.

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