open wide please

I finally decided what I wanted for my birthday and since I was on my way to see the folks, I figured there was no time like the present…for presents.
Me:  “So, I decided what I want for my birthday.”
Dad: “Yeah, what’s that?”
Me:  “Your DNA.”
Dad: (smiling) “What?”
Me:  “You are the only one here with a Y chromosome [...]

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The things I miss

when I am in an exam. Someone told me that a really interesting show came on last night right before Frontline. She only caught a small part of it, but it seemed to have been about genetics and maybe some kind of ancestral genetic determination. My curiosity sent me straight to the listings. It was this [...]

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pondering family genes

Because I have been spending so much energy on this genealogy thing lately, I have not been attending to my studies as I should. I was sitting in pathophysiology class last night daydreaming about family history. We were discussing congenital and genetic disorders. The subject of the first part of the lecture was mendelian genetics and inheritance. (It was [...]

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