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Subject: Re: [DNA] french magazine
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 19:59:40 EDT


In a message dated 05/07/01 9:22:25 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
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> It looks like our DNA stuff made it into that french magazine. Now if I
> could only understand a word of it!
>
> http://www.sciences-et-avenir.com/encouverture/page54.html

Why, Paul -- you are far too modest! I bet you recognize at least two words
[PAUL CUNI] and maybe even four ["ALAIN" SAVIN]. I used the translation
service recommended by Sharon http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn as
a starting point and cleaned up the section about Paul and Alan a little bit.
See below -- if there's a real French translator around, feel free to jump in
with additions and corrections.

The article also refers to material on pages 57, 58, 59, 60, 63, 66, and 70.
There are no hyperlinks, but if you substitute those numbers for the 54 in
Paul's URL, you can reach the pages. There is quite a bit of background
material about Bryan Sykes, Oxford Ancestors, and the "seven daughters of
Eve." Some of the material is apparently a critique of the seven daughters
concept, and I will try to read it more thoroughly later.

----- from SCIENCES ET AVENIR, April 2001
Paul Cuni, an Italian-American from Connecticut, thus experienced, at the
beginning of this year, a small family cataclysm. This 23 year old student
had patiently traced the history of his paternal family to Bergamo, in Italy,
continuing his search on the probable Germanic origin of his name. On the
maternal side, the oldest known ancestor was a woman of Mexican origin living
in Arizona in the year 1820. But beyond that, the files are non-existent. Why
not have recourse to the DNA? Paul Cuni builds a castle in Spain: doesn't the
maternal clan bear the Basque name of Yrigoyen? This was without accounting
for many Mexicans who have blood mingled with that with the conquistadors
from Europe... He thus orders the test, scrapes some cells from his cheeks
using a small brush, and sends it all to the other side of the Atlantic. One
month later, the verdict opens other horizons.

"The analysis of my mitochondrial DNA has revealed it to be rather similar to
what finds in Nigeria and the Ivory Coast," he explained. "The surprise
passed, I plunged into new research. To discover that Mexico City, just like
the United States, imported a great number of slaves coming from this part of
Africa. I thus suppose that one of the ancestors of my mother was a African
slave who lived 500 years ago."

The young man then hastened to order a second analysis, this time on his Y
chromosome and his paternal lines, with another company, American this time.
Bitten, the young person Paul? Perhaps his passion announces a revolution in
the circles of genealogy. The British Alain Savin, renowned specialist, and
author of the DNA to the service of the historians of the families [DNA for
Family Historians], thus predicted a "brilliant future with the genetic
genealogy... since the expertise will become more accessible "

<SNP> [Ann's pun -- Single Nucleotide Polymorphism, pronounced "snip"]

... according to Alain Savin, who advises the geneticists of University
College of London, "certain companies are already developing hyper-practical
tests: they will be able to slip into a pocket and everyone can carry out a
test reserved hitherto for the laboratories. Others are on the point of
marketing tests costing 10 dollars." Each one will be able to then imitate
our family historian: "Instead of saying simply that I descend from Savin of
Oxfordshire, from now on I add "whose male haplotype is 2, 3, 15, 12, 11, 13,
14." So British!



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