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March 12, 2006
Genes, Genes the Musical Fruit
It's tax refund time and I am looking for an appropriate waste to spend it on. A while ago a friend of mine pointed me to The Genographic Journey which will determine your haplotype and tell you about the migration of your genetic marker over time. What I wanted to know was how recent the results are so I knew what to expect for my $99 + shipping.
Suprisingly, I was only able to find one poster who actually had received their results and decided to share. Sanjiva over at Overtures had this to report about his genetic testing. It seems the results for him went as far back as the Eurasian notching point about 60,000-80,000 years ago up to about 15,000 years ago.
He discovered that his haplotype travelled out of Africa, into central Asia (like all P-I-E speaking ancestral groups), as expected. However that's when things took a funny turn: his ancestores had the type common with the group that migrated to Siberia. Sadly, that's where the story ends. Via this project, he may never know how his ancestors reached the Indian Subcontinent.
Personally I hope that once your genetic haplotype is known over the years better and better data will become available and you'll be able to glean more and more data about one's ancestral journey. With that hope, I go to order a kit!
12:23 PM: Here's another person's results, this time she's been tracked with her mDNA.
Posted by jordanh at March 12, 2006 12:08 PM
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