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Wednesday, 08/04/2004 7:07:03 AM

Wednesday, August 04, 2004 7:07:03 AM

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DNAWitness 2.5

http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=3471049

As we reach our first anniversary as a management team, I am encouraged by our progress. We improved our consumer product ANCESTRYbyDNA™ and upgraded it from a 71-marker test to a 175-marker test. We intend to continue improving the product, its accuracy and its ability to scan a broader platform of genetic heritage. Our goal is to expand our current 4 categories of inherited genetic markers to 8 and possibly 16 categories.

Here's the 8 way classification (I missed this):

http://www.newscoast.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040714/BUSINESS/407140540/-1/TOPHOMES

DNAWitness 2.5 determines a person's proportional ancestry from among four major population groups around the world: Native American, East Asian, Indo-European or sub-Saharan African heritage. It also can distinguish whether a person's European descent is primarily of continental European, Middle Eastern or Indo-Pakistani origin.

Someone's East Asian ancestry can be further specified as Northern, Central or Southeast Asian.

So, that gives:

Native American (1)
East Asian - subdivided into Northern (2), Central (3), Southeast Asian (4)
Indo-European - subdivided into continental European (5), Middle Eastern (6), Indo-Pakistani (7)
Sub-Saharan African (8)