Saturday, May 3, 2014

Tracing YOUR Genetic path back to "Babel"?


Therefore is the name of it called Babel;

because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth:

and from thence did the LORD scatter them
abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Genesis 11:9

Here is a little something for those who like tracing their ancestry--OK, maybe not back to babel, but at least a thousand years..... "An international team of scientists says it has developed a “GPS” tool to trace your DNA up to 1,000 years to its region of origin, possibly
even down to specific villages or islands.

As described in the natural science journal Nature Communications, the new tool, called Geographic Population Structure, looks at populations around the world and identifies DNA that is typical only of certain areas. It then matches your DNA to the region where yours is most common, showing you where the gene pools that created your DNA were last mixed. In essence, it helps you find your ancestral home.
Until now, scientists have been able to locate where DNA was formed only within about 400 miles. But this new technique has been 98 percent successful in locating worldwide populations to their right geographic regions, according to the research, which was also described in Science Daily.
But perhaps one of the most interesting pieces of the project is that anyone can do it.
The researchers’ Web site, a company called, Prosapia Genetics, explains:

Get your autosomal DNA genotyped by an external company like Genographic, 23andMe, FamilyTreeDNA, or others. Make sure you order an autosomal DNA kit (not just your Mitochondria or Y chromosome). When your results are ready, download them from your vendor’s website and upload them to our website. Then, simply select a package and run GPS.
After you upload your DNA file and choose a test you will get the GPS coordinates in text and on a map. You will see the point where your DNA have originated on that map and an explanatory text on how to read them." WashingtonPost
The Genographic Project 
 https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/
Family Tree DNA
https://www.familytreedna.com/
Ancestry DNA Testing
http://dna.ancestry.com/?s_kwcid=ancestry+dna&o_xid=58712&o_lid=58712&o_sch=Search
23 and Me
https://www.23andme.com/

Autosomal DNA Testing comparison Chart


Autosomal DNA explained for genealogy
Someone Posted their experience with this on YouTube