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OVERVIEW Field researchers will collect DNA samples from Indigenous populations as well as allow for public participation. For US$100 anyone in the world can order a self-testing kit from which a mouth scraping (saliva swab) is obtained, analyzed and the DNA information placed on an Internet accessible database. The process will be completely anonymous and will not test for medically relevant traits. Instead Genetic Marker s on Mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosome s will be used to trace distant ancestry, and each participant is provided with their genetic history. As of June 2007 , more than 210,000 people have participated. The US$ 40m project is a privately-funded collaboration between the National Geographic Society , IBM and the Waitt Family Foundation . Parts of the proceeds from the sale of self-testing kits are said to be ploughed into a Legacy Fund to be spent on cultural preservation projects nominated by indigenous communities. Prominent team members are:
The Genographic Project leaders have said that they would make the information from their project public, and that the project is undertaking widespread consultation with indigenous groups. Some of the members of the Genographic Project were key members of the HGDP as well; the Advisory Board, for example, includes Luigi Cavalli-Sforza , the Geneticist who originally proposed the HGDP. {Link without Title} PROBLEMS 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. Around May of 2006, the United Nations Permanent Forum On Indigenous Issues recommended suspending the project. As of December 2006 almost every federally recognized tribe in North America has declined to take part. "What the scientists are trying to prove is that we’re the same as the '', December 10, 2006. However, more than 25,000 indigenous participants from the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe have joined the project as of June 2007. SEE ALSO Genographic Project general public test kits are processed by Family Tree DNA (FTDNA) using the Arizona Research Labs at the University Of Arizona .
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