Genealogia Molecular

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Hoy 20 de julio pero del año 1822 nació el austríaco Gregor Johann Mendel

Hoy 20 de julio pero del año 1822 nació el austríaco Gregor Johann Mendel, personaje mejor conocido por sus leyes de la herencia genética. Po ello google le ha dedicado su doodle por sus 189 aniversario.

Mendel fue titular de la prelatura de la Imperial y Real Orden Austriaca del emperador Francisco José I, director emérito del Banco Hipotecario de Moravia, fundador de la Asociación Meteorológica Austriaca, miembro de la Real e Imperial Sociedad Morava y Silesia para la Mejora de la Agricultura, Ciencias Naturales y Conocimientos del País y jardinero (aprendió de su padre cómo hacer injertos y cultivar árboles frutales).

Mendel presentó sus trabajos en las reuniones de la Sociedad de Historia Natural de Brünn3 (Brno) el 8 de febrero y el 8 de marzo de 1865, y los publicó posteriormente como Experimentos sobre hibridación de plantas en 1866 en las actas de la Sociedad. Sus resultados fueron ignorados por completo, y tuvieron que transcurrir más de treinta años para que fueran reconocidos y entendidos.

Al tipificar las características fenotípicas (apariencia externa) de los guisantes las llamó "caracteres". Usó el nombre "elemento" para referirse a las entidades hereditarias separadas. Su mérito radica en darse cuenta de que en sus experimentos (variedades de guisantes) siempre ocurrían en variantes con proporciones numéricas simples.

Los "elementos" y "caracteres" han recibido posteriormente infinidad de nombres, pero hoy se conocen de forma universal con el término genes, que sugirió en 1909 el biólogo danés Wilhem Ludwig Johannsen. Para ser más exactos, las versiones diferentes de genes responsables de un fenotipo particular se llaman alelos. Los guisantes verdes y amarillos corresponden a distintos alelos del gen responsable del color.

Mendel falleció el 6 de enero de 1884 en Brünn, a causa de una nefritis crónica sin tener descendientes directos.

Leyes de la Herencia de Mendel
Las tres leyes descubiertas por Mendel se enuncian como sigue: según la primera, cuando se cruzan dos variedades puras de una misma especie, los descendientes son todos iguales y pueden parecerse a uno u otro progenitor o a ninguno de ellos; la segunda afirma que, al cruzar entre sí los híbridos de la segunda generación, los descendientes se dividen en cuatro partes, de las cuales una se parece a su abuela, otra a su abuelo y las dos restantes a sus progenitores; por último, la tercera ley concluye que, en el caso de que las dos variedades de partida difieran entre sí en dos o más caracteres, cada uno de ellos se transmite de acuerdo con la primera ley con independencia de los demás.

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Friday, July 15, 2011

Ugo Perego is the speaker in this DNA Webinar

If you are interested in Genetree.com, the Legacy Family Tree Webinar with Ugo Perego is now archived from July 13, 2011

http://www.millenniacorp.com/_videos/webinars/2011-07-13-dna/2011-07-13-dna.html

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Monday, July 04, 2011

New Report on Maria Ines Rodriguez mtDNA

I have DNA test results.

Not the criminal evidence or disease identification type.

I have genetic genealogy DNA test results. Some years ago I had my y-DNA tested. You can see those test results along with hundreds of others posted on "Genealogy of Mexico DNA Surname Project" web site http://garyfelix.tripod.com/index63.htm

The test reveals that my y-DNA came from some European in the distant pass. Look at the summary pie chart of Mexican y-DNA on the web site and find the y-DNA distribution of people claiming Mexican roots today is made up of 79% Spanish, 13% Native American and 8% African. That is my simplification of what is actually presented. The page has 49% Western European, 23% Semitic, 7% Nordic, 13% Native American and 8% Miscellaneous. Iberian history and archaeology explains why Spaniards are a mixture of Western European, Semitic (A family of languages that includes Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic, and certain ancient languages such as Phoenician and Akkadian.) and Nordic (Relating to Scandinavia, Finland, and Iceland.) African slaves brought to Mexico in very large numbers explains the 8% figure for them. What is hard to fathom is that in 490 years since the conquest of Mexico the Native American y-DNA level in Mexico dropped from 100% to 13%. I read somewhere that there were 6 million people living in Mexico at the time of the conquest. Where did all that y-DNA go?

This year I decided to get my mtDNA tested. This after making a presentation last year at a SHHAR meeting on the subject of Mexican mtDNA testing. I decided to test with FamilyTreeDNA for a number of reasons, the primary reason being that they have a large Mexican mtDNA project. They have test results for hundreds of people with Mexican roots posted.

http://www.familytreedna.com/public/GenealogyofMexicoDNAProject/default.aspx?section=mtresults

I ran the numbers from that site and found 77% Native American, 17% European (Spanish), 5% African and 1% Asian. I think these numbers are easier to swallow.

As I swabbed the inside of my cheek for a test sampled, I wondered to which Native American haplogroup I belonged. After all, the odds favored my results would be Native American. I rushed to embrace the idea of belonging to any one of the Native American haplogroups which are A, B, C, D and the rare X. You cannot pick your mtDNA test results. The results came back as haplogroup K. It took a while to accept it but I have come to love it. Let me tell you why I find my test results so special. Some time ago I persuaded Rosalinda Cantu to get mtDNA tested because my genealogy database identified her as an mtDNA descendant of Maria Ines Rodriguez.

I have over 70,000 descendants of Maria Ines in my database. She is at the top of my database top ten list of mtDNA haplotypes. My test results match those of Rosalinda Cantu. That means that I probably have my mtDNA by way of Maria Ines Rodriguez. Unlike Rosalinda, I have not been able to trace my mtDNA line back to Maria Ines. I trace my mtDNA line back seven generations. I would have to add another maybe ten generations to reach Maria Ines. These test results may have bridged that generational gap for me.

What do these tests results tell me about who I am? Both reveal Spanish ancestors. They confirm one male and one female ancestor had roots in Europe (Spain?). That is a far cry from the whole picture. Starting from me as generation one and going back eleven generations I would have 1,024 ancestors (612 male and 612 female) that generation alone. One of those males and one of those females carried the same y-DNA and mtDNA as me. My test results tell me nothing of my other 1,022 ancestors. The numbers from the Mexican Surname DNA site may give a truer picture of my genome. Why not use the numbers from that site to predict my genetic mixture. If I could test my 612 male ancestors, I might predict 483 Spaniard, 80 Native American and 49 African. If I could test my 612 female ancestors the numbers could be 471 Native American, 104 Spaniard and 37 African. I like that.

I have an email from a person matching my mtDNA asking how to interpret the results.

One way to think about it is that my mtDNA came from my mother who got it from her Mexican mother who got it from her Mexican mother etc. until we arrive at a mother who sailed across the ocean from Spain bringing a new mtDNA to the Mexico. That mtDNA spread to be the largest haplotype in my records. I have posted a report showing how over 3,000 females carry the same mtDNA as Maria Ines Rodriguez. (See the link below)

My records show that I descend from Maria Ines Rodriguez, 34 ways, by way of three of her daughters; Beatriz, Ines and Mariana Navarro.

I descend from Beatriz Navarro 1 way, Ines Navarro 14 ways and Mariana Navarro 19 ways. Coincidentally, of the four people in my database that trace back to Maria Ines Rodriguez on their mtDNA line, all have matching HVR1 mtDNA test results on FamilyTreeDNA. The two people that trace back to Mariana Navarro do so from different daughters. I used different color highlighting on the report to make it easier to follow how the lines descend.

Female mtDNA Descendants of Maria Ines Rodriguez

http://home.earthlink.net/~crisrendon/mariainesrodriguez.pdf

Best Regards,

Crispin Rendon

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Friday, April 22, 2011

Please explain inheritance and how autosomals and Xs combine/recombine"

It is theoretically possible, but the chances are so small as to be meaningless in the practical sense. If you are looking at just one marker or chromosomal region, you will see that two siblings will share no DNA about 1/4 of the time. That's just as you worked out when you wrote down the possible combinations (except you wrote AB instead of AC).

But that would have to happen over and over for siblings to show no match. It's hard to say how many "pieces" of DNA we should be using in our calculations because of recombination, so let's just take a simpler case of the 22 autosomes that always come in matching pairs. Imagine tossing a coin 22 times and coming up with all heads for one sibling and all tails for the other sibling. The formula for calculating the chance of that happening is 0.25 ^ 22 (raised to the 22 power). That's one in 17,592,186,044,416 (17.6 trillion).

Although I used the example of all heads and all tails, the same formula applies if you write down the sequence of 22 coin tosses for one sibling (HTTHTHHHT....). The chance of the sibling exactly duplicating that sequence is the same as all heads for one person and all tails for the other person.

Ann Turner

Thursday, April 07, 2011

Genographic Newsletter: April 2011

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April 2011

Pedro Paulo Vieira, conducts outreach with the Xavante people in central Brazil. Photo by Jorge Protodi Xavante.

From the Field
South America: Postdoc at the Genographic Center in South America and Brazilian native Pedro Paulo Vieira just returned from his second visit with the Xavante tribe in the Pimentel Barbosa territory of Brazil. He is currently working with the Xavante people in hopes to better understand the tribe's ancient migration routes. During this past visit, Pedro spent ten days in the village conducting Genographic outreach. In their local language, the Xavante refer to Pedro as T'serini'omön or Eagle Wing.

India: Genographic Principal Investigator Ramasamy Pitchappan, based at Madurai Kamaraj University in India, reports that his team is currently working with indigenous populations in the Indian states Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh to decipher their migratory history.

East and Southeast Asia: The Genographic Center based in East Asia at Fudan University reports of its team's recent findings from an expedition to Xigazê (Shigatse), China. The team's sampling suggests that the Tibetan population has ancient roots that predate the last ice age. Genographic Post doc, Sonia Sagrista reports of the close relationship that the team has formed with the people of Xigazê and their eagerness to return soon.

Did You Know?

•	It takes your cells about eight hours to copy your entire genome when they divide.

•	Spencer Wells is a judge in the Google Science Fair. Check out his blog entry on the fair's website and learn how your budding Einstein can submit his or her project.

•	The Genographic Project has a Facebook page. "Like" us and recommend our page to your friends.

•	More than 400,000 people have participated in the Genographic Project by purchasing a Genographic Project Public Participation Kit.

•	An encore of The Human Family Tree will air at 4 PM ET on Thursday, April 7 and at 12 PM ET on Friday, May 27 on the National Geographic Channel. Check your local listings for more information.

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The Human Family Tree travels to one of the most diverse corners of the world—Queens, New York—to demonstrate how we all share common ancestors who embarked on very different journeys. Find out how, on a single day on a single street, with the DNA of 200 neighbors, the Genographic Project traced the ancestral footsteps of a few strangers to represent a microcosm of the whole word.

After waiting in line, a Cornell student swabs to participate in the Genographic Project. Photo by Colby Bishop.

Cornell Genetic Ancestry Project
Cornell University has launched its first ever Genetic Ancestry Project. Spencer Wells, a Rhodes Professor at Cornell, is working closely with genetics professor Chip Aquadro on the semester-long Project. Read about how 200 random undergraduates swabbed, along with Cornell's Genetic Ancestry project's plans for the semester.

Visit our blog to see photos from the event.

The participant's great-grandmother and her sisters in Quito, Ecuador, in the 1920s.

Featured Migration Story
My Espinosa Family: Having researched the origins of his paternal lineages for many years in Spain, Portugal, and Ecuador, a public participant traced his family's heritage back to Ecuador but then hit a brick wall. Hoping to learn more, he tested with the Genographic Project, and his results surprised him, revealing his ancient ancestors' roots in Western Europe while also supporting the origins of his surname, Espinosa.

We want to hear your personal migration story too. Tell us what you learned about your deep ancestry from the Genographic Public Participation Kit. Has it changed the way you view yourself or others?

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IBM Celebrates 100 Years
In celebration of its centennial anniversary, IBM is highlighting its 100 most iconic insights and initiatives. We're honored that IBM is featuring the Genographic Project as one of the first showcased icons of progress. Since 2004, IBM and National Geographic have worked closely as partners on the Genographic Project, and we're all excited to see this worthy initiative continue to contribute to a greater understanding of our shared human journey. Check out the Genographic icon and explore IBM's other achievements.

In the News
The Oakland Tribune: "Back to the Roots"

Cornell Chronicle: "200 students offer cheek samples for Cornell's Genetic Ancestry Project"

Are you a subscriber to Science Magazine? Did you catch our piece—"A Random Sample"—in the February 4th edition?

Spencer Wells discusses ancient migration patterns with Edward Bleeker Middle School students. Photo by Lindsay Maiorana.

The Genographic Project Visits Edward Bleeker Middle School
As part of our partnership with The Silk Road Project, world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma's multidisciplinary education foundation, roughly 400 students at four different New York City public schools have the opportunity to trace their deep ancestry with the Genographic Project this school year. In early January, the Genographic team visited Edward Bleeker Middle School in Flushing, New York, to swab with the students and discuss where they think they might be from.

Learn more and see photos from the event.

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Website: http://www.Genealogia.org.mx
Cell Phone (81) 1667-2480

"Haz tu Arbol Genealogico...El Arbol mas Hermoso de la Creacion"

Por medio de la historia familiar descubrimos el árbol más hermoso de la creación: nuestro árbol genealógico. Sus numerosas raíces se remontan a la historia y sus ramas se extienden a través de la eternidad. La historia familiar es la expresión extensiva del amor eterno; nace de la abnegación y provee la oportunidad de asegurarse para siempre una unidad familiar".
(Élder J. Richard Clarke, Liahona julio de 1989, pág.69)

Friday, February 18, 2011

Investigando el rastro de Cristo – Diario de Yucatán

Algunos arqueólogos mormones defienden la teoría de que una visita de Cristo al continente americano, luego de resucitar en Jerusalén y antes de ascender al cielo, en el año 34, podría haber ocurrido no sólo en Dzibanché, cerca de Chetumal, como informamos el domingo 9 de este mes, sino también en una localidad de Campeche.

El arqueólogo M. Wells Jakeman, de la Universidad Brigham Young, de Utah, Estados Unidos -el principal centro académico de los mormones en el mundo-, estableció la teoría en 1948 de que la ciudad de Bountiful [Abundancia], el sitio donde Jesucristo, según el Libro del Mormón, visitó a sus seguidores en América, se ubica en un punto conocido como Aguacatal, en la selva de Xicalango, cerca de Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche.

Trabajando entre una espesa maleza, Jakeman realizó excavaciones en ese lugar y encontró cerca de 150 estructuras piramidales. Muchas de esas estructuras estaban perdidas en el pantano de Xicalango y separadas del resto de la tierra por tres grandes fosas. Las fosas parecían enormes paredes que recordaron al arqueólogo las características de la ciudad de Bountifoul, de acuerdo con el Libro del Mormón.

Aguacatal parece haber sido, según el investigador, la única ciudad amurallada en la región meridional de la costa del Golfo de México, pero también una ciudad comparativamente muy grande. Tuvo un largo periodo de prosperidad, que se inició tentativamente, según Jakeman, entre los años 350 ó 400 antes de Cristo y tomó auge en los primeros años de nuestra era.

Los mormones coinciden en que la visita de Cristo a América ocurrió en un lugar cercano al mar. En el caso de Aguacatal, cerca del Golfo de México. Dzibanché está próximo al Caribe.

La permanencia de Jesucristo en territorio de México, de Centroamérica e incluso de Yucatán, en una tierra con geografía más parecida a la europea que a la americana, es una auténtica fábula, dicen los detractores de esa creencia.

Coincidencia

Para contrarrestar esas opiniones, desde 1952 la iglesia mormona financia el más grande y ambicioso proyecto de arqueología religiosa. Se trata de la Fundación Arqueológica del Nuevo Mundo (FANM), con sede en Chiapas, que inicialmente tuvo investigadores de campo que no eran mormones. A lo largo de los años ha logrado inquietantes hallazgos arqueológicos, en su afán de probar la permanencia de Cristo en América.

Parte del trabajo de la FANM consiste en relacionar el período Preclásico tardío de la civilización maya (400 a.C al 200 d.C, cuando se consolidan los grandes centros ceremoniales y comienzan a surgir las grandes urbes) con la etapa de esplendor de la civilización que aparece en el Libro del Mormón.

Según este texto, que para los mormones es como la Biblia para los católicos, "en los dos años siguientes a la venida de Cristo, en el año 34, todos los hombres de la faz de la tierra se habían convertido y no había ricos, ni pobres, ni esclavos, ni libres; y los discípulos de Jesús efectuaron grandes y maravillosas obras, de tal manera que sanaban a los enfermos y resucitaban a los muertos, edificaron grandes ciudades y aquí que aconteció que el pueblo se hizo fuerte y se multiplicó con gran rapidez".

Este periodo se extendió, dice el Libro del Mormón, 200 años más. Según la ciencia, el apogeo de la cultura maya ocurrió en el período Clásico, entre el año 300 y el 1100, después de Cristo.

Pero según el arqueólogo mormón Marco Antonio Magaña Mena, egresado de la Facultad de Antropología de la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, "hay suficientes evidencias para asegurar que el Preclásico tardío -que coincide con la época de paz y prosperidad del Mormón, por la llegada de Jesucristo- fue el mejor momento de los mayas, porque cimentaron sus conocimientos tecnológicos y científicos que desarrollaron después en el período Clásico".

Una prueba de esto es la zona de Cerros, en Corozal, Belice, fomentada entre los años 50 A.C. y 150 D.C, explica César Castillo Valdés, arqueólogo mormón, egresado de la Escuela Nacional de Antropología.

Allí arqueólogos no mormones descubrieron vestigios de una ciudad maya del Preclásico tardío, que muestra enormes avances culturales.

Más recientemente, en 2006, añade Castillo Valdés, el arqueólogo estadounidense William Saturno descubrió algo aún más revelador: un mural de 15 metros en San Bartolo, Belice, casi en la frontera con Guatemala, que data del año 100 antes de Cristo. Ese mural, que narra el mito del dios maíz, se hizo con técnicas propias del periodo Clásico, lo que demuestra que la civilización maya floreció siglos antes de lo que sostienen muchos investigadores.

Otro hecho que algunos arqueólogos mormones relacionan con la cultura maya es el surgimiento de innumerables caminos entre ciudades mayas en el periodo Preclásico. Arqueólogos mormones, apoyándose en estudios de científicos no mormones de la Universidad de Tulane, en Estados Unidos, demuestran que Komchén, en Yucatán, contaba con caminos desde el año 300 antes de Cristo.

Posteriormente, los mayas en el periodo Clásico multiplicaron la construcción de esos caminos por toda la Península.

El descubrimiento de los sacbés mayas, de 4 a 10 metros de ancho, ha sido usado por algunos arqueólogos mormones que defienden la teoría de la permanencia de Cristo en la Península de Yucatán como una prueba de la relación entre los mayas y el Libro del Mormón, cuyas historias hablan precisamente de ciudades comunicadas por caminos.

Uno de los arqueólogos más eminentes del mormonismo, John L. Sorenson, en uno de sus libros afirma que estas construcciones mayas coinciden precisamente con el Libro del Mormón, que habla de grandes caminos y de vehículos con ruedas.

"No tenemos ninguna idea de cómo serían estos vehículos en el caso de los mayas", dice Sorenson. "Habrían podido ser carros rodados o aun cuerpos con cuatro ruedas que habrían servido para mover las mercancías. No lo sabemos bien todavía, pero seguramente existieron".- Hernán Casares Cámara

Fuente Investigando el rastro de Cristo – Diario de Yucatán.

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Saturday, January 08, 2011

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Thursday, December 23, 2010

Genographic Newsletter: Volume 5, Issue 4

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The Baalbek ruins, Lebanon.

Inside the Project
Genographic Project scientists Wolfgang Haak (of the Ancient DNA Center in Adelaide) and Marc Habr (of the Middle East Center in Beirut) published scientific research papers using data from the Genographic Project.

Influences of history, geography, and religion on genetic structure: the Maronites in Lebanon

Ancient DNA Indicates Farmers, not Just Farming, Spread West

Lisa Matisoo-Smith discusses the Genographic Project results with various village members in Emirau.

From the Field
Lisa Matisoo-Smith, Genographic Project Investigator at the Oceania Center in Otago, New Zealand, recently returned from a week in the field in Emirau, Papua New Guinea. Having worked with the Emirau community for the past four years, Lisa has built strong relationships with local schools and community leaders. Read Lisa's stories from the field and learn about the Emirau community's interest in their history and heritage.

Did you know?

•	Now in its fifth year, the Genographic Legacy Fund has supported 53 projects, which span six continents and reflect over $1.4 million dollars in grants. This year's awards went to projects in Alaska, Ghana, India, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Namibia and Nigeria.
•	The Genographic Project was launched in 2005 initially as a five-year project; however, our research centers will continue their field work and analysis through 2011. We anticipate that publications from the analyses of the data will continue for several years into the future and Genographic Public Participation Kits will be continue to be available for members of the public to purchase.
•	You can explore the Arctic with Project Director Spencer Wells. He will be joining the National Geographic Expedition to Norway's Fjords and Arctic Svalbard. Learn more and secure your spot.

A public participant uses his daughter's help to swab and participate in the event at the Adelaide Central Market.

Genographic Public Swabbing Event Held in Adelaide, Australia
The University of Adelaide hosted a Genographic swabbing event at the Adelaide Central Market, inviting one hundred Adelaideans to swab for free on a first-come, first-served basis. Post Doc Wolfgang Haak and Principal Investigator Alan Cooper from Genographic's Ancient DNA research center based in Adelaide, combined the results to provide insight into each individual's deep ancestry and a snapshot of Adelaide's migratory history at a public lecture held at the university.

See photos from the event and learn about the results

Frequently Asked Question
Q: If I have already tested with the Genographic Project, should I still give my family members a Genographic Public Participation Kit?

A: Each Public Participation Kit tests either the maternal or paternal side of your DNA, following the bloodline down through the generations. If you have tested one side, you or a blood relative can still test the other side. Males possess both a Y chromosome (paternal) and mitochondrial (maternal) DNA, so they may choose to test either side with the Genographic Public Participation Kit (one test per kit). As females do not possess a Y chromosome, they can test only their maternal DNA but can discover more about their paternal lineage by asking a male blood relative to test instead. Learn more about Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA on our website.

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Three generations celebrate their heritage with the Genographic Project.

Featured Migration Story
We Are Still Here!: A woman's story about her family's hidden history in World War II and how she, her daughter, and her granddaughter celebrate their heritage today with the Genographic Project.

We want to hear your personal migration story too. Tell us about what you learned about your deep ancestry from the Genographic Public Participation Kit. Has it changed the way you view yourself or others?

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Benicio Samuel Sanchez
Email: samuelsanchez@genealogia.org.mx
Website: http://www.Genealogia.org.mx
Cell Phone (81) 1667-2480

"Haz tu Arbol Genealogico...El Arbol mas Hermoso de la Creacion"

Por medio de la historia familiar descubrimos el árbol más hermoso de la creación: nuestro árbol genealógico. Sus numerosas raíces se remontan a la historia y sus ramas se extienden a través de la eternidad. La historia familiar es la expresión extensiva del amor eterno; nace de la abnegación y provee la oportunidad de asegurarse para siempre una unidad familiar".
(Élder J. Richard Clarke, Liahona julio de 1989, pág.69)