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The US$40m project is a privately-funded collaboration between National Geographic , IBM and the Waitt Family Foundation {Link without Title} . All proceeds from the sale of self-testing kits will be ploughed into a Legacy Fund to be spent on cultural preservation projects nominated by indigenous communities. Prominent team members are:
This work is analogous to that of Professor Bryan Sykes , who pioneered the usage of Mitochondrial DNA to trace lineages. Sykes documented his work in '' The Seven Daughters Of Eve ''. The project has drawn comparison with the failed Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) from the 1990s , which ended after a range of controversies emerged about how the DNA information would be managed. The Genographic Project leaders have said that they will make the information from their project public, and that the project is undertaking widespread consultation with indigenous groups. A number of the key members of the Genographic Project were key members of the HGDP as well; the Advisory Board, for example, is chaired by Luigi Cavalli-Sforza , the geneticist who originally proposed the HGDP. {Link without Title} Shortly after the announcement of the project in April 2005, the Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism, ( IPCB ), released a statement protesting the project, its connections with the HGDP, and called for a boycott of IBM, Gateway Computers , and National Geographic. SEE ALSO
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