Product Description

How to DNA test your family relationships is a condensed and informative guide to molecular biology techniques used in studying biological relations with close and distant family members. You may have heard of mitochondrial Eve and nuclear adam. Now read about how to test DNA and answer questions of your true historic identity, ethnicity, religion, and even geographical origin.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1899077 in Books
• Published on: 2000-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Review
“The information about your ancestry is hidden in your DNA. This book invites you to reveal it. A must read for those interested in uncovering their true family identity and history.” -- - Paul Allen, Co-founder of MyFamily.com and Ancestry.com

About the Author
Terrence Carmichael is the CEO of GeneTree, Inc. He has been involved in the business of paternity and distant family relationships for many years. Alexander Kuklin is the director for global marketing at the biotechnololgy company Transgenomic, Inc.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
from the Preface to the book: The progress of the Human Genome Project caused an explosion of renewed interest in using DNA technology to study people’s ancestry. Scientific discoveries pointing to Africa as the recent birthplace of modern humans used DNA, passed exclusively in a maternal line by the mitochondria, the energy producing organelles in the cell. Researchers traced this DNA to a mitochondrial Eve. To test the theory, scientists studied the Y chromosome, which is passed from father to son. This provided an independent test of the mitochondrial Eve hypothesis. Scientists found the genetic trail leading to Adam, and it pointed to the same time and place where mitochondrial Eve lived.

Services based on DNA technology, which are still being refined in research laboratories, are in great demand by consumers who are eager to read the genetic book of their ancestors and find their true origins. The avalanche of information and speed of delivery available through the Internet, coupled with guaranteed anonymity and privacy offered by e-commerce genetic companies, allows those interested to easily order such tests on-line.

This book is a short reference guide for the use of DNA technology in testing family relationships. Its objective is to outline the procedures involved in DNA testing. Each topic mentioned here is a scientific discipline by itself. The authors do not cherish the ambition to describe all possible details and discoveries in this field. Our aim is to spark interest in the reader for further studies and discussions.

Customer Reviews

Wow! The things that you can do with DNA!
I thought that this book was very interesting. It is really unbelievable what DNA can say about a person's ancestral history. DNA can fill in the rest of a family's history where the photo album and genealogical research abruptly stops. And this book takes an easy approach to explaining the details without getting to technical.

Good story telling, too.

Basics of DNA testing
The book covers useful basic approaches in paternity and genealogy testing, which are sometimes not explained even in biology textbooks. This book covers fundamental prinicpals of DNA work in this field. Highly recommed for purchase by those who want to learn the nuts and bold of all procedure involved in such tests. If you are a genealogist, lawyer, or just curious - this book will give you a very nice short but detailed overview of the techniques used in such type of work. The book is spiced with stories and examples.

This is where to start!
Not having any prior knowledge or experience in science, this book helped explain what all the DNA phenomenon is about. The examples and information excited me about doing my own search and testing that it is now my hobby! It's the hottest topic amongst my friends and neighbors who are also getting the book and ready to dig into their "presumed" family history. I guess I'm most satisfied in that it helped me realize how powerful DNA is and as they say, knowledge is power!