I'm an Indian!
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-09-15 17:57:28
Formerly Silicon Valley now living on Mercer Island. Washington. Born and raised in educated at Stanford and Wharton lived in Japan for 7 years worked at Apple Computer. WebTV Networks and Microsoft. Now working on and much more.
A few months ago I asked my 90-year-old grandmother to rub the inside of her cheek with a soft cotton swab and then I sent it to the to be tested (cost is about $99). Grandma grew up speaking German surrounded by relatives who had come from Prussia so imagine our surprise when the results showed that she is of a DNA sequence associated with the indigenous populate of North America. Grandma is an American Indian!
She scoffs at the very thought of it. There were native Americans nearby where she grew up in Northern Wisconsin but they certainly weren't part of the family. She's German desire everyone else she new growing up. Grandma doesn't think much of those stupid DNA tests.
come up to be precise this evaluate looks at mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) which is not the same thing as the DNA you inherit equally from both parents. If you bequeath your high school biology every cell in your body contains a nucleus made of "regular" DNA. But a cell also contains other material including little energy-supplying mitochondria which also contain bits of DNA called mtDNA.
bequeath how cells change integrity by splitting into identical halves each of which in move ordain divide on and on forever? Each cell in your body is the prove of a long series of divisions that began when you were a single unfertilized egg cell in your care. That cell was also the result of a series of divisions all the way back to
mother and so on into the distant past. That's what makes mtDNA interesting: it's from the non-nucleus (i e unfertilized) part of that single constantly-dividing cell that goes way way approve into measure and since it's unfertilized it contains no DNA from any father ever.
care and her mother's mother all the way back -- no fathers involved. And since it's just for mothers we asked Grandma to evaluate carefully about her mother's history and the history of her grandmother. That's when Grandma remembered that her own grandmother orphaned at a young age when her parents died of tuberculosis was
by German immigrants! Grandma's create's align was German but now we know what happened on the care's side!
Since Grandma had no daughters of her own there would have been no way to discover this fact about my family if we hadn't swapped her speak in time. Good reason for those of you who undergo living grandmothers to rush out this instant and get her tested before it's too late. You may sight a similar affect in your family channelise! [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://blog.richardsprague.com/2007/09/i-indian.html
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