The Irish DNA atlas

The following announcement was written by the

Genealogical Society of Ireland and the Royal College

 of Surgeons in Ireland: This afternoon at the

Back To Our Past show at the RDS, the Genealogical

Society of Ireland and the Royal College of Surgeons in

Ireland launched an important All-Ireland project to create

a collection of DNA samples from individuals of Irish origin,

 which will be used to explore human genetic variation

in the Irish population.

Over the past decade or so genealogists from around the

world have become increasingly intrigued by the

possibilities afforded through the advances in genetic

genealogy to…