The new issue of DNA Tribes Digest is now available. This month’s feature article focuses on the Sahelian genetic region along the borderlands between the Sahara Desert and tropical forest zone. It was here that many diverse and influential African cultures have emerged, such as the Mali Empire of Mansa Musa, who awed Egypt and Arabia with the wealth of his caravan and established of the famous University of Timbuktu.

Our February 28, 2010 issue can be viewed and downloaded free in printable PDF format below:
http://www.dnatribes.com/dnatribes-digest-2010-02-28.pdf

An archive of previous DNA Tribes Digest articles can be found here.

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New Populations:

We are pleased to announce the addition of several new populations to our database:

New African Populations:

• Berber (Azrou, Morocco) (201)
• Khoisan (Republic of South Africa) (108)

New European and European Diaspora Populations:

• Hungary (4,213)
• Pomeranian (Espirito Santo, Brazil) (82)
• South Portugal (2,723)

Enhanced Scoring:

Our scoring algorithms have been updated to reflect our expanded global population database, now representing over 1,000 reference samples from around the world. This scoring update will allow for higher MLI scores, particularly for populations and regions in more geographically isolated parts of the Americas and northern and eastern Eurasia. In some cases, this will provide greater informativeness of personal DNA matches due to enhanced stratification of individual MLI scores and greater power of exclusion of TribeScore percentile information.

For more information, our Global Survey (available here) and Sample Result documents (available here) have been updated to incorporate our enhanced scoring system.

Updates:

Previous DNA Tribes customers who would like to update their results to include these new populations and our most up to date algorithms can order using the "Update Your Analysis" option through our secure online checkout.