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J. R. DePriest :verified_trans: :donor: :Moopsy: :EA DATA. SF:

Before my wife's chronic migraine, she was deeply involved in genealogy.
For my family history, she actually found where my paternal great-grandmother was on the Dawes Rolls. She was 1/4 Choctaw which makes me 1/32 Choctaw. I think I'm also 1/128 Cherokee but we can't find the evidence since that would be quite far back.
Anyway, that makes my dad verifiably 1/16 Choctaw.
What's interesting is that he took a DNA test and it found 0% Native American DNA. Genetics and heredity is weird like that since you only get half of each parent's DNA.

I'm not obscene enough to start claiming my "Native American Heritage" for 1/32 and a life that was lived entirely as an entitled white person.

#Ancestry#DNA#Heritage
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Genealogie-News

Die eigene Herkunft im Fokus

#Münster. Die Universitätsstiftung Münster zeichnet zwei bürgerwissenschaftliche Forschungsvorhaben mit dem Citizen-Science-Preis aus. Eines davon ist „Erzählen Deine Gene Dir Deine Geschichte?! DNA-Tests als Waren und populäres Vergnügen“.

uni-muenster.de/news/view.php?

#Ahnenforschung #UniversitätMünster #CitizenScience #KAEE #CompGen #LWL #DNA #DNAGenealogie #GeorgFertig #ElisabethTimm #FriederikeEhn #Museum #NaturkundemuseumMünster
@ahnenforschung @CompGen

www.uni-muenster.deDie eigene Herkunft im Fokus
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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

🔴 🧬 **Genetic data is an another asset to be exploited – beware who has yours**

John Naughton

“_When 23andMe’s data assets come up for sale the queue of likely buyers is going to be long, with health insurance and pharmaceutical giants at the front, followed by hedge-funds, private equity vultures and advertisers, with marketers bringing up the rear._”

🔗 theguardian.com/science/2025/a

#Science #DNA #Genetics #Data #Biology @science @biology

The Guardian · Genetic data is another asset to be exploited – beware who has yoursBy John Naughton
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katzenberger 🇺🇦

@mullvadnet

Not just #ChatControl.

Can't wait for #Orban, and consequently #Putin, to get hold of this:

»This will enable secure #automated exchanges of #fingerprints, #DNA profiles, #vehicle registration data, #facial images, and police #records through EU routers. At national level, Member States need to implement the Information Exchange Directive enhancing information exchange channels for seamless cross-border information flow, while ensuring their integration with Union-level systems, such as SIENA«

eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten

eur-lex.europa.euEUR-Lex - 52025PC0148 - EN - EUR-Lex
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Andrés Manuel Álvarez

After a long journey, finally, my good friend Sai and coworkers published this amazing work in #NatCommun. 🎉

They can use native functional groups such as alcohols and transform them to the most challenging Z-olefins.

Without the use of a transition metal catalyst, and even working for #DNA 🧬 functionalization!

#chemistry #science #paper #photocatalysis #catalysis #research

nature.com/articles/s41467-025

NaturePhotocatalytic deoxygenative Z-selective olefination of aliphatic alcohols - Nature CommunicationsAlcohols are one of the most abundant functional groups in commercially available materials and biologically active compounds. Here, the authors report a metal-free photocatalytic method for the deoxygenative Z-selective olefination of aliphatic alcohols.
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gtbarry

For everyone trying to delete your 23andMe data...you can't

When you press delete on your 23andMe account and data, it will vanish from the site. But a clause in the privacy statement and 23andMe’s adherence to laboratory rules mean that your genetic background is still there, somewhere, in the company’s records.

#23andMe #bankruptcy #DNA #genetics #privacy #biotech #business #technology

sfgate.com/tech/article/califo

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PrivacyDigest

#OpenSource #Genetic Database Shuts Down To Protect Users From 'Authoritarian Governments' - Slashdot
#authoritarian #authoritarianism #privacy #dna

science.slashdot.org/story/25/

science.slashdot.orgOpen Source Genetic Database Shuts Down To Protect Users From 'Authoritarian Governments' - SlashdotAn anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The creator of an open source genetic database is shutting it down and deleting all of its data because he has come to believe that its existence is dangerous with "a rise in far-right and other authoritarian governments" in the United States and e...
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