Colloquium - A physicist's adventures in genetic genealogy

Speaker:   Iain McDonald (The Open University)

Abstract:  Direct-to-consumer DNA testing is a burgeoning market, with around 40 million people tested. This offers societal challenges but also many opportunities. Here, I describe ongoing efforts to reproduce the movements of people across the last 5000 years of European history, using Y-chromosomal DNA testing, in partnership with the genetic testing company Family Tree DNA