National Geographic + IBM = “Genography”
National Geographic has paired up with IBM to launch a five-year genetic anthropology study, The Genographic Project, which aims to chart the migratory history of humans. Genetic markers drawn from 100,000 blood samples will be used to trace links between populations in various regions throughout the world.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science’s SIPPI project site points out that similar studies in the 1990s lost public funding over concerns that researchers might assert patent rights or that the process would otherwise exploit indigenous communities.
This study will supplement its funding by selling DNA sampling kits that will enable members of the public to learn about their own ancestral migratory history, and will use some proceeds to develop programs that will benefit participating indigenous groups.
This sounds a very exiciting project along with language and linguistics and culture and anthropology etc
Comment by Daya Sugunasingha — May 19, 2005 @ 1:24 pm
un proyecto magnifico y muy ineresante!
Comment by sonia — June 2, 2005 @ 7:06 pm
Very interesting project.Everybody likes to know more about themself, knowing where you might come from,revealing the hidden past…
Comment by nina — June 21, 2005 @ 10:31 am
What an exciting project! Go for it.
Comment by Heather — June 27, 2005 @ 9:48 pm
Those of you who have stumbled here from google may also be interested in the recent news that German and US scientists have just launched a joint project to sequence the Neanderthal genome.
Comment by Administrator — August 7, 2005 @ 11:33 am
I think this is interesting because I am among those people who want to know more about my ancestors and how they came from and gave physical/genetic influences in me and my son. I want to know how to participate in that project.
Comment by Melany Kusumawati Gigir — September 7, 2005 @ 7:21 pm
It’s a interesting project because people want to know more about themselves and wonder the connections that they have with their ancestors and how they have certain features in their physical appearance.
Comment by Melany Kusumawati Gigir — September 7, 2005 @ 7:29 pm
Very interesting project to learn and to participate.
Comment by Melany Kusumawati Gigir — September 7, 2005 @ 7:30 pm
interesting project, but a little thing i like to add, what we are experiencing is the best days for humans or a hidden yesterday which is better than the best. it might be experienced in future days that human life is in two or three stairs. perhaps we are at the bottom.
Comment by ravikumarsinha — October 4, 2005 @ 2:59 am
Wonderful concept,fascinating possibilities for basic education wonderful diversity awareness tool and a wonderful personal enrichment to link into t e past boon to humanity great PR for IBM too
Comment by CSch weitzer — February 3, 2006 @ 2:36 am
A totally racist so-called “study” that does nothing but propagate misinformation to the sheep-like general public, in line with the Rupert Mudoch ideology. For instance, it’s surmised that humanity began in Africa, but that there were successive waves of migration out of Africa. Why did this happen? Because some humans developed “extra brain power” of course! They couldn’t have been forced out by famine or war - it must have been because they had the greater intelligence a racist would expect the ancestors of Europeans to have possessed.
Comment by Me — October 10, 2006 @ 8:35 am
I would like to know what the DNA show about the BASQUE race.
Where do we come from, what are our closest relatives?
ETC, ETC.
Thank you
Comment by stephane peltier — August 3, 2007 @ 5:40 pm
I wish to that whether this research can be used to trace the behaviour of the humans by comparing the sample DNAcode with already studied DNAs
Comment by sivaram,subburaj — October 4, 2007 @ 10:26 pm