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DNA and You, the second in our Series on Consumer Genetics, has been published and is widely available now in print versions and in an ebook, or Kindle. This photo of the authors, Donald N. Yates and his wife Teresa A. Yates, accompanies the blurb on the back cover. It was taken in Kusadasi, Turkey on one of the couple's research trips in 2011, or about midway through the period of reporting covered by the book, which has been over ten years in the making. (more)

Do you have enough Jewish ancestry to call the Land of Israel home? Find out now in your new EURO matches, part of the standard population analysis exclusive to our company (more)

Did you know Meryl Streep is Swiss, Irish, English, Dutch and Sephardic (Spanish) Jewish? DNA proves again and again that most people are more mixed than they realize (more)

DNA Consultants is pleased to announce a new version of its database with the DNA testing industry's only country-specific matches for European ancestry (more)

We are extremely pleased to announce the introduction of atDNA 6.0, the latest and most advanced build of the forensic database used in our DNA Fingerprint family of ancestry tests. The new version includes for the first time a special Native American population named U.S. Cherokee Admixed (n=62) (more)

What began ten years ago with a steady stream of customers complaining that their mitochondrial DNA results must be wrong has now become a major game-changing study of an American Indian tribe's genetic genealogy (more)

Ethnic estimates by percentages are notoriously misleading (more)

Principal Investigator Donald Yates has announced that Phase II of the company's Cherokee DNA Studies is drawing to an end and results of the investigation will be published this month (more)

In 1961, when Swiss author Max Frisch wanted to poke his fellow Europeans he penned the play "Andorra." (more)

The Fourth International Conference on Diversity in Organisations and Nations hardly seems the place for a historical bombshell to fall about America's famous Kennedy family. (more)