Re: Tracing Your Native American Ancestry
- From: "Connie" <tucson.connie@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 11:00:08 -0700
<azwhistler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1191518059.358128.318890@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Oct 4, 12:18 pm, "Connie" <tucson.con...@xxxxxxx> wrote:This is bullcrap; repeatedly trying to sell your product on this forum.
Like most scams, this plays into people's propensity for greed. The
pittance coming from the federal govt is not even enough to touch the
intensely critical social problems on Amerika's reservations, and you're all
about getting people to pay over 200 bucks to find some shred of blood
quantum in the futile hope they can tap into some "free" govt money.
The folks on here are overwhelmingly lily white, regardless of what they'd
like others to believe. Yeah, I know, everybody's got a Cherokee princess
ancestor, or some chief back then (they're never just common folks!), and so
they "deserve" some of the booty. Claptrap!
To everyone else: do your homework before buying into this farce. Paying
this fool will not buy you a ticket into commodity wealth heaven.
<americanindian...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Tracing Your Ancestry: Computer Program Accurately Analyzes Anonymous
> DNA Samples
> Science Daily - A group of computer scientists, mathematicians, and
> biologists from around the world have developed a computer algorithm
> that can help trace the genetic ancestry of thousands of individuals
> in minutes, without any prior knowledge of their background.
> Unlike previous computer programs of its kind that require prior
> knowledge of an individual's ancestry and background, this new
> algorithm looks for specific DNA markers known as single nucleotide
> polymorphisms, or SNPs (pronounced snips), and needs nothing more than
> a DNA sample in the form of a simple cheek swab. The researchers used
> genetic data from previous studies to perform and confirm their
> research, including the new HapMap database, which is working to
> uncover and map variations in the human genome.
> "Now that we have found that the program works well, we hope to
> implement it on a much larger scale, using hundreds of thousands of
> SNPs and thousands of individuals," said Petros Drineas, the senior
> author of the study and assistant professor of computer science at
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. "The program will be a valuable tool
> for understanding our genetic ancestry and targeting drugs and other
> medical treatments because it might be possible that these can affect
> people of different ancestry in very different ways."
> Understanding our unique genetic makeup is a crucial step to
> unraveling the genetic basis for complex diseases, according to the
> paper. Although the human genome is 99 percent the same from human to
> human, it is that 1 percent that can have a major impact on our
> response to diseases, viruses, medications, and toxins. If researchers
> can uncover the minute genetic details that set each of us apart,
> biomedical research and treatments can be better customized for each
> individual, Drineas said.
> This program will help people understand their unique backgrounds and
> aid historians and anthropologists in their study of where different
> populations originated and how humans became such a hugely diverse,
> global society.
> Their program was more than 99 percent accurate and correctly
> identified the ancestry of hundreds of individuals. This included
> people from genetically similar populations (such as Chinese and
> Japanese) and complex genetic populations like Puerto Ricans who can
> come from a variety of backgrounds including Native American,
> European, and African.
> "When we compared our findings to the existing datasets, only one
> individual was incorrectly identified and his background was almost
> equally close between Chinese and Japanese," Drineas said.
> In addition to Drineas, the algorithm was developed by scientists from
> California, Puerto Rico, and Greece. The researchers involved include
> lead author Peristera Paschou from the Democritus University of Thrace
> in Greece; Elad Ziv, Esteban G. Burchard, and Shweta Choudhry from the
> University of California, San Francisco; William Rodriguez-Cintron
> from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine in San Juan; and
> Michael W. Mahoney from Yahoo! Research in California.
> The team's findings will be published in the September 2007 edition of
> the journal PLoS Genetics.
> Drineas' research was funded by his National Science Foundation Career
> award.
> Note: This story has been adapted from material provided by Rensselaer
> Polytechnic Institute.
> Hope you foound this interesting.
> Walt
>http://AmericanIndianDNA.com
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I somehow doubt that this person Reads anything posted here.
That's fine. If my post saves one gullible person from forking over the money, then my job is done!
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