CymruDNAWales will carry out an unprecedented mass survey of Wales’s ancestry to trace the origins of its people – back beyond written records to the end of the last ice age around 9,000BC when colossal glacial shifts gouged out our landscape and allowed the first immigrants to settle here.
I am familiar with The Genographic Project ... “advanced DNA analysis and
worked with indigenous communities to help answer fundamental questions about
where humans originated and how we came to populate the Earth.”
I also remember
reading, Faroe Islands Aim to Sequence Genes of Entire Country. This project was undertaken with a health
focus and the future use of genomic medicine.
It will be interesting to see where these projects go and what they
learn.
Are there other mass survey DNA projects that have taken place or are
occurring now to identify the deep ancestry of a particular locale or people?
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