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A third of Americans can trace their ancestry to Ellis Island. … So much of American greatness has been tracked back through those immigrants who came. – Paul Linehan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This new, large study adds to this overall picture, but it only drew on data from people with White, British or Irish ancestry, more research is needed to build on its intriguing findings, and uncover whether these reported benefits also translate to minority communities, where historically dementia has often been misunderstood and highly stigmatised, and where awareness of how people can reduce their risk is low. – Susan Mitchell	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We suspected that there was a chronology to the northern Scandinavian gene pool, and it did indeed prove that a more recent influx of Uralic ancestry into Scandinavia define much of the northern gene pool, but if it is recent, it is comparatively so. For example, we know that this Uralic ancestry was present in northern Scandinavia as early as during the late Viking period. – Ricardo Rodríguez-Varela	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
But not all parts of Scandinavia received the same amounts of gene flow from these areas. For example, while British-Irish ancestry became widespread in Scandinavia, the eastern Baltic ancestry mainly reached Gotland and central Sweden. – Ricardo Rodríguez-Varela	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Her genome fills in a really important missing piece of the overall story of how humans got to the Americas. A lot of work has been focused on the other branch of Native Americans' ancestry -- the Siberians -- but not much was known until this paper about the East Asian ancestors of Native Americans '. It's really important to understand this branch, as it accounts for the majority of Native American ancestry ! – Jennifer Raff	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Simply put, what we did was we created the largest human family tree ever, we have a single genealogy that traces the ancestry of all of humanity, and shows how we're all related to each other today. – Anthony Wilder Wohns	Found on CNN 2 years ago
You can use DNA to identify disease risk, so (the world leaders) might be at risk for a disease, you could look and see if there could be some ancestry elements that could be exploited. – Howard McLeod	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I would not say that there is any evidence, historical or scientific,in favorof the existence of Adam and Eve, as they are presented in the Bible, however, there have been developments in our understanding of ancestry and genetics that allow for the possibility of universal ancestors of the entire human population in the surprisingly recent past. – Nathan Lents	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
My distant cousin received an out of the blue message through Ancestry’s messaging portal from a family in Germany, it turns out that this was in regard to my uncle, Herb Harms, who died on Aug. 16, 1944, when his plane was shot down. – Suzanne Franklin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Mitochondrial DNA is only inherited from the mother, it's only one tiny thread of your ancestry and you lose a lot of complexity. If you look at the nuclear genomes of humans, Neanderthals or Denisovans, you can calculate how they were related and how many there were at a given time. – Benjamin Vernot	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The bones don't just tell us what animal it was, but also tell us a number of other things, such as its ancestry( through ancient DNA) and its diet( through chemical isotope analysis). – Ashleigh Haruda	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I wanted to do something different and have California lead by example, while our nation's capital is hopelessly divided along party lines and President Trump is putting immigrant families and children in cages, the California Legislature with HR 77 will be issuing an official, bipartisan measure for its own actions taken that led to the incarceration of over 120,000 loyal Americans of Japanese ancestry behind barbed wire. – Democratic State Assemblyman Albert Muratsuchi	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I was angry about the fact that I had to pay to go to school. I was angry at how the coach had insulted not only me, my fellow teammates, my ancestry. – Lionel Grimes	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
About two-thirds to three-fourths of the ancestry of all modern South Asians comes from a population group related to that of this Indus Valley individual. – Vagheesh Narasimhan	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
This individual is the missing link of Native American ancestry. – Eske Willerslev	Found on CNN 4 years ago
If you look at the genetics of people who lived during the Roman period and the genetics of people who are living there today, you would think that there was just this continuity, you would think that nothing happened between the Roman period and today, and you would miss that for a certain period of time the population of Lebanon included Europeans and people with mixed ancestry. After the fighting had finished, the mixed generation married into the local population and the genetic traces of the Crusaders were quickly lost. – Marc Haber	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Our findings give us an unprecedented view of the ancestry of the people who fought in the Crusader army. And it wasn't just Europeans, we see this exceptional genetic diversity in the Near East during medieval times, with Europeans, Near Easterners, and mixed individuals fighting in the Crusades and living and dying side by side. – Marc Haber	Found on CNN 5 years ago
This year marks my father's 100th birthday and the 75th anniversary of Karen Korematsu v. United States decision. At these milestones, it is a reminder that we must' Stand Up For What is Right' and' Stop Repeating History' by enacting a law that will ensure what happened to my father and 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry can never be done to anyone again in the United States. – United States	Found on CNN 5 years ago
( Warren) was a kid and Chrystal Pennisi was told this is your ancestry, just like any of us were. I don't think any of us really dug into who are parents and grandparents and so on said we were, it's not like she stole anything from anyone or she accepted any kind of special award because of it. – Chrystal Pennisi	Found on CNN 5 years ago
So, the Denisovan ancestry in living Australian Aboriginal and New Guinean people could, therefore, be the result of direct interbreeding between their ancestors and Denisovans, but we do not know where this interaction took place. – Zenobia Jacobs	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We may be removing some of the mystique surrounding these people by showing that they weren't that different from the people that came before or after them, the Minoans and Mycenaeans didn't have any special ancestry: they were made of the same basic ‘stuff’ as other people from Europe and the Middle East. So we can't answer the question of why these civilizations flourished thousands of years ago, but we can at least cast some light on who they were and where they came from. – Iosif Lazaridis	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I think that the desire to use genetic ancestry testing has really changed over the sort of 12-15 year duration of the industry. – Anna Swayne	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It (the book) ignores the inconvenient truth that some people on the islands can trace their Falklands ancestry back through nine generations, longer than the current borders of Argentina have existed. – Hugo Swire	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. – Sir William Schwenck Gilbert	added by anonymous 9 years ago

A third of Americans can trace their ancestry to Ellis Island. … So much of American greatness has been tracked back through those immigrants who came.

– Paul Linehan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This new, large study adds to this overall picture, but it only drew on data from people with White, British or Irish ancestry, more research is needed to build on its intriguing findings, and uncover whether these reported benefits also translate to minority communities, where historically dementia has often been misunderstood and highly stigmatised, and where awareness of how people can reduce their risk is low.

– Susan Mitchell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We suspected that there was a chronology to the northern Scandinavian gene pool, and it did indeed prove that a more recent influx of Uralic ancestry into Scandinavia define much of the northern gene pool, but if it is recent, it is comparatively so. For example, we know that this Uralic ancestry was present in northern Scandinavia as early as during the late Viking period.

– Ricardo Rodríguez-Varela

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

But not all parts of Scandinavia received the same amounts of gene flow from these areas. For example, while British-Irish ancestry became widespread in Scandinavia, the eastern Baltic ancestry mainly reached Gotland and central Sweden.

– Ricardo Rodríguez-Varela

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Her genome fills in a really important missing piece of the overall story of how humans got to the Americas. A lot of work has been focused on the other branch of Native Americans' ancestry -- the Siberians -- but not much was known until this paper about the East Asian ancestors of Native Americans '. It's really important to understand this branch, as it accounts for the majority of Native American ancestry !

– Jennifer Raff

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Simply put, what we did was we created the largest human family tree ever, we have a single genealogy that traces the ancestry of all of humanity, and shows how we're all related to each other today.

– Anthony Wilder Wohns

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You can use DNA to identify disease risk, so (the world leaders) might be at risk for a disease, you could look and see if there could be some ancestry elements that could be exploited.

– Howard McLeod

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I would not say that there is any evidence, historical or scientific,in favorof the existence of Adam and Eve, as they are presented in the Bible, however, there have been developments in our understanding of ancestry and genetics that allow for the possibility of universal ancestors of the entire human population in the surprisingly recent past.

– Nathan Lents

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My distant cousin received an out of the blue message through Ancestry’s messaging portal from a family in Germany, it turns out that this was in regard to my uncle, Herb Harms, who died on Aug. 16, 1944, when his plane was shot down.

– Suzanne Franklin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Mitochondrial DNA is only inherited from the mother, it's only one tiny thread of your ancestry and you lose a lot of complexity. If you look at the nuclear genomes of humans, Neanderthals or Denisovans, you can calculate how they were related and how many there were at a given time.

– Benjamin Vernot

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The bones don't just tell us what animal it was, but also tell us a number of other things, such as its ancestry( through ancient DNA) and its diet( through chemical isotope analysis).

– Ashleigh Haruda

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I wanted to do something different and have California lead by example, while our nation's capital is hopelessly divided along party lines and President Trump is putting immigrant families and children in cages, the California Legislature with HR 77 will be issuing an official, bipartisan measure for its own actions taken that led to the incarceration of over 120,000 loyal Americans of Japanese ancestry behind barbed wire.

– Democratic State Assemblyman Albert Muratsuchi

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I was angry about the fact that I had to pay to go to school. I was angry at how the coach had insulted not only me, my fellow teammates, my ancestry.

– Lionel Grimes

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

About two-thirds to three-fourths of the ancestry of all modern South Asians comes from a population group related to that of this Indus Valley individual.

– Vagheesh Narasimhan

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

This individual is the missing link of Native American ancestry.

– Eske Willerslev

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If you look at the genetics of people who lived during the Roman period and the genetics of people who are living there today, you would think that there was just this continuity, you would think that nothing happened between the Roman period and today, and you would miss that for a certain period of time the population of Lebanon included Europeans and people with mixed ancestry. After the fighting had finished, the mixed generation married into the local population and the genetic traces of the Crusaders were quickly lost.

– Marc Haber

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Our findings give us an unprecedented view of the ancestry of the people who fought in the Crusader army. And it wasn't just Europeans, we see this exceptional genetic diversity in the Near East during medieval times, with Europeans, Near Easterners, and mixed individuals fighting in the Crusades and living and dying side by side.

– Marc Haber

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This year marks my father's 100th birthday and the 75th anniversary of Karen Korematsu v. United States decision. At these milestones, it is a reminder that we must' Stand Up For What is Right' and' Stop Repeating History' by enacting a law that will ensure what happened to my father and 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry can never be done to anyone again in the United States.

– United States

Found on CNN
5 years ago

( Warren) was a kid and Chrystal Pennisi was told this is your ancestry, just like any of us were. I don't think any of us really dug into who are parents and grandparents and so on said we were, it's not like she stole anything from anyone or she accepted any kind of special award because of it.

– Chrystal Pennisi

Found on CNN
5 years ago

So, the Denisovan ancestry in living Australian Aboriginal and New Guinean people could, therefore, be the result of direct interbreeding between their ancestors and Denisovans, but we do not know where this interaction took place.

– Zenobia Jacobs

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We may be removing some of the mystique surrounding these people by showing that they weren't that different from the people that came before or after them, the Minoans and Mycenaeans didn't have any special ancestry: they were made of the same basic ‘stuff’ as other people from Europe and the Middle East. So we can't answer the question of why these civilizations flourished thousands of years ago, but we can at least cast some light on who they were and where they came from.

– Iosif Lazaridis

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I think that the desire to use genetic ancestry testing has really changed over the sort of 12-15 year duration of the industry.

– Anna Swayne

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It (the book) ignores the inconvenient truth that some people on the islands can trace their Falklands ancestry back through nine generations, longer than the current borders of Argentina have existed.

– Hugo Swire

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.

– Sir William Schwenck Gilbert

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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