{"id":439,"date":"2007-08-15T23:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=439"},"modified":"2007-08-15T23:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T22:48:00","slug":"dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/dna\/","title":{"rendered":"DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/atomicshed\/166044092\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/47\/166044092_aa45c8f230_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/atomicshed\/166044092\/\">Something&#8217;s not right, dna test required<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/atomicshed\/\">atomicShed<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>For a long time, at least since I first read Stephen Oppenheimer&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1841198943?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thewidblo-21&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=6738&#038;creativeASIN=1841198943\">Out of Eden<\/a>, I&#8217;ve wanted to have my mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA, the DNA passed on from mother to child) and Y chromosome (passed on from father to son) tested.  Why?  I don&#8217;t know &ndash; I think it&#8217;s the same urge that makes people do genealogy.<\/p>\n<p>When I checked last time, a simple test cost around \u00a3300.  I did a quick Google search, and it seems prices have come down a bit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dna-worldwide.com\/DNA-Testing-Direct\/Ancestry-DNA-Testing\"> DNA Worldwide<\/a> have both an mtDNA and a Y-chromosome test, both costing \u00a3180.  They claim to determine sub-haplogroups, thus determining the location much more precisely.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordancestors.com\/\">Oxford Ancestors&#8221;<\/a> seem to charge about the same amount, but they have more options (but possibly less detail).\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genetree.com\/ancestral\/\">GeneTree<\/a> have the same stuff again, this time at $245 (\u00a3123) apiece.  Not sure whether it&#8217;s a problem they&#8217;re in the US, though.<\/ul>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s still a bit expensive, so I ought to wait a few years longer. \ud83d\ude41<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something&#8217;s not right, dna test required Originally uploaded by atomicShed For a long time, at least since I first read Stephen Oppenheimer&#8217;s Out of Eden, I&#8217;ve wanted to have my mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA, the DNA passed on from mother to child) and Y chromosome (passed on from father to son) tested. Why? I don&#8217;t know &ndash; I think it&#8217;s the same urge that makes people do genealogy. When I checked last time, a simple test cost around \u00a3300. I did a quick Google search, and it seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}