wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@>
> wrote:
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71" <wayback71@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Maybe someone has already mentioned this, but National
Geographic
> > and IBM are involved
> > > in a joint venture to research the movement of humans as they
> > began to leave Africa about
> > > 150,000 years ago. Apparently, all of us have DNA that goes
back
> > to the same male or
> > > female. For $107 you can order a kit online from National
> > Geographic and 8 weeks after
> > > you send in cheek swabs of your DNA, they send you the info
about
> > your ancestry. If you
> > > are female, they trace your mitochondrial DNA (through your
> > mother's line) and if you are
> > > male, they trace your father's line.They also use your info in
> > their worldwide database.
> > > Your money helps to fund the collection of DNA in poorer and
> > indigenous tribes
> > > throughout the world.
> >
> > What a great idea!
>
> Gattaca - or just tracking down the Meravingians?
> And you get to pay for it, too. :-)
Good basis for a thriller here. Some kid sends his
family's DNA off to National Geographic as part of
his science project and a team of weird Dan Brown
albino priests arrives at the door to kidnap the
kids... :-)
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