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We have provided a few more interesting Genetic links for you here:

An article was recently published that quickly made it's way to the New York Times.

In the May 9th, 2000 article, Dr. Hammer compared 7 different Jewish populations to the localized non-Jewish communities and included an additional 15 ethnic groups for a further bases of comparison. The article is quite technical, but an executive summary is available from the National Academy of Sciences as an Abstract.

The entire article, with valuable charts, diagrams and more detail then most laymen will want is available at the same site in a Full Text Version

For those of you who would like to play a simple game using the Y chromosome to identify relatives you may do so by visiting the NOVA web site. However, a few notes of caution: 1) You will need to download Macro Media's "Shockwave" to play, and 2) the game is simplistic and tends to minimize the complexity of the science behind the science.

I want to Play anyway!