[HN Gopher] Ancient DNA Revolution
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       Ancient DNA Revolution
        
       Author : Hooke
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2024-08-10 05:37 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (archaeology.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (archaeology.org)
        
       | abe94 wrote:
       | I've been following this field closely for the last 5 years, its
       | really cool what we can learn about our own ancestry now!
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       | For those interested in a good overview David Reich's book is
       | still excellent -
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_We_Are_and_How_We_Got_Here
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       | And if you're interested in an in-depth ancestry analysis of your
       | dna you can use commercial options like
       | https://illustrativedna.com/ or analyse your dna yourself with
       | qpadm https://uqrmaie1.github.io/admixtools/articles/qpadm.html
        
       | epgui wrote:
       | For people interested in publicly traded companies (this is not
       | investment advice and I am not qualified whatsoever) that make
       | this possible: NASDAQ:PACB and LSE:ONT.
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       | To the best of my knowledge, ILMN and other similar short-read
       | sequencing technologies are not able to perform to the level
       | required for these sorts of applications.
        
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