NEW YORK, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Geneticists say DNA evidence suggests 20 percent of the population of the Iberian Peninsula has Sephardic Jewish ancestry.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 15 (UPI) -- A Harvard University professor has started a company that uses customer's DNA to trace their ancestry.
BARCELONA, Spain, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- More than 500 years after Christopher Columbus set foot in the Bahamas, DNA experts are working to determine the particulars of his early life.
LONDON, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- British researchers say Thomas Jefferson may have been the first U.S. president with Jewish roots. Using cells donated by descendants of Jefferson's paternal uncle to determine if Jefferson had fathered children with his slave Sally Hemings, geneticists a
NEW YORK, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Companies have sprung up to fill the latest genealogy niche -- getting DNA testing to try to find distant relatives or trace ancestry to a specific region.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, May 13 (UPI) -- A team of geneticists says DNA study of ancient people in Malaysia has yielded clues on how early humans migrated from Africa.
TAPEI, Taiwan, May 10 (UPI) -- Taiwan has opened its first DNA bank, encouraging citizens to preserve their DNA cells in the bank.
