ANCESTRAL DNA REFERENCES

This DNA Links page was originally begun during January, 2006 as an aid to students doing research for the 2006 Immigrant All! exhibition, which preceded the 2007 DNA: Cracking the Ancestor Code exhibition. After February 2007 it will be maintained only episodically.

We hope it still will be useful to visitors and we offer our apologies for its eclectic nature, the broken links that have escaped our notice, and information that needs to be updated.

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    The Great DNA Hunt 
    (1996)    		 Archaeology magazine article
    Kerchner's DNA Testing & Genetic Genealogy Info and Resources Page Lots of links - personal story
    Genealogy Blog
    History Detectives - DNA PBS site
    Genetics and Human Migration Patterns
    The Human Family Tree: 10 Adams and 18 Eves 
    (2000, Wade, NYT)
    DNA analysis tracks Silk Road forbearers (2001) BBC News> article highlights Dr. Spencer Wells
    Y-DNA work in Central Asia
    The History of Men: Ghengis Khan's yDNA
    (2004)    		 Discovery Dec 2004 by Spencer Wells
    Spencer Wells Lecture Real Audio (50 min)
    The Journey of Man YouTube version of Spencer Well's seminal film
    in nine mini-segments (120 min)
    GenographicProject Announcement 30 min video
    Excavating Ourselves - Results of a DNA survey of Museum of London visitors, July 2003 This study and exhibition have many similarities
    to what we are creating at CSUEB.
    Genetic ancestry and the search for personalized genetic histories
    (Shriver & Kittles, Nature Reviews Genetics 2004)    		 8 page pdf - Good general review of the field
    with emphasis on African American roots.
    Genetics, DNA, and H Health History about.com summary
    ALFRED: Allele Frequency Database
    Glossary of Genetic Terms Clan Lindsay site
    Genographic Update with Spencer Wells and Anne Gibbons
    (May 10, 2007)    		 Streamed Broadcast on Voice of America (50 min)

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    A Family Tree in Every Gene by Armand Marie Leroi NY Time Op-Ed piece on race
    March of the Titans - History of the White Race Very elaborate white supremacist site, which 
    uses DNA data for its own purposes
    Refuting Arthur Kemp's: Lies about Portugal
    Race: The Reality of Human Differences
    (2005, Sarich & Miele)    		 Book by UC Berkeley anthropologist calls the current 
    view that "race does not exist" a "PC dogma."
    Seeking Ancestry, and Privilege, in DNA Ties Uncovered by Tests
    (NYT, 4/11/06)

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    Mysteries of History U. S. News site
    Who were the Phoenicians National Geographic
    DNA and the Book of Mormon
    DNA and the Book of Mormon People
    Solving the Mystery of the Neandertals Clear animation and interactive exercise showing very 
    early phylogenetic split between Neandertals and us.
    Recovery of Neanderthal DNA: An Evaluation This is a Creationist site.
    Solving the Mystery of the Romanovs Clear animation and interactive exercise showing how 
    mtDNA proves the fate of the Romanovs.
    Mitochondrial DNA Analysis of the Presumptive Remains of Jesse James (2001) 4 page pdf
    DNA Report Revives Czar Mystery
    (2004)
    Stanford study questions identity of alleged Romanov bones
    (2004)
    The Blood of the Vikings BBC site
    Where is Columbus?
    (2004)    		 MSNBC article
    New Evidence in Columbus Mystery(2004) NBC article
    Revisiting Neandertal diversity with a 100,000 year old mtDNA sequence
    (2006, Orlando et al., Current Biology)    		 3 page pdf
    IE - "In Quest of Our Linguistic Ancestors:The Elusive Origins of the Indo-Europeans"
    by John V. Day
    IE - Review of “In Quest of Our Linguistic Ancestors: The Elusive Origins of the IE” 
    by Dienekes Pontikos
    Thomas Jefferson’s Y Chromosome Belongs to a Rare European Lineage
    (2007, King et al., AJPA)