2026年4月28日
~20 STRs suit parent–child testing but fail on degraded bone and cousins. Typing ~95,000 short-fragment SNPs fixes both — and forensics and ancient DNA both swear by the petrous bone.
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2026年4月13日
Xinhua's review takes Donghulin and other finds as examples of how Chinese research now reads East Asian prehistory at the genetic level — moving from studying bones to cross-disciplinary gene-based reconstruction.
2026年4月2日
The Westlake University team and Wenzhou Medical University built 1,116 diploid Chinese genome assemblies, uncovering 405.3 million base pairs of novel sequences—13% of the human genome—including 26.2 million bp with clear functional roles, providing an East Asian reference framework for diagnostics and drug development.
2026年3月18日
Reconstructing ancestors isn't magic: it stitches together chromosome segments shared across many descendants. Here is how it works, how it differs from ethnicity estimates, and why Eurocentric databases leave East Asian users with gaps.
2026年3月16日
23andMe's new Reconstructed Ancestors and DNA Relatives Clustering features infer the ancestry of untested deceased relatives — the company's first major ancestry update since its nonprofit transition.
2026年2月4日
FamilyTreeDNA updated its Y-DNA haplogroup tree with more than 100,000 new branches, covering finer downstream lineages and refined age estimates, giving genetic genealogy researchers a more precise tool to pinpoint recent common ancestors.
2026年1月21日
An unidentified Asian victim in the Gilgo Beach killings highlights a systemic blind spot: Asian representation in public DNA genealogy databases is so low that forensic genealogy struggles to find relatives.
2025年11月14日
Dogs were the first domesticated animal and often moved alongside people, so ancient dog genomes serve as a proxy for human migration. Here is why sequencing them helps map how people moved.
2025年10月30日
23andMe has named a Privacy Advisory Board after a 2023 breach affecting 6.9 million users and an $18 million settlement, aiming to strengthen governance of consumer genetic data.
