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Subject: Re: [PIATT] DNA dialogue?
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 10:28:56 -0500 (EST)


If we approached it from a multi-generational medical-related standpoint we would probably come closer to finding a grant source. I've not written any grants myself. I did contact several groups of Alzeihmer's (sp?) researcher groups to volunteer my mother-in-laws family as a case study. Her mother was a Shrable and one of 12 children almost all of whom suffered from Alzeihmer's. Someone told me it came from the Ware side of the family. So, I know that it was not just that one generation which was effected. I was told that her family would be an interesting one to study - but - no one took me up on it. So, it is probably harder to get involved in a study than to do your own. But, they probably would want it to have medical and not genealogical findings. Isn't it easier to trace back the mother's side (intact mitochondrial DNA from the mother). Isn't that what the book 'The Seven Daughters of Eve' did? I think the researcher did DNA on thousands of women of Mediteran!
ian descent (all over the world) and found that they all traced back to the same seven ancestors. I really want to read the book - but - haven't yet. I would definately be interested in doing the DNA if we could afford it. Both my father-in-law and his father are dead. So, I would have to volunteer my husband. ha ha Marianne




--- On Fri 10/25, Robin Pyatt Bellamy wrote:
From: Robin Pyatt Bellamy [mailto: ]
To:
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:15:59 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Subject: Re: [PIATT] DNA dialogue?

> Laverne, you are so impatient! (She and I have been chatting a bit about
> this over the last few weeks)
>
> This is one of the items that will eventually be included on the piatt
> site
> as well. Im in the process of ammassing information and links to include.
>
> If anyone has any input please post it here or send it to me at
>
>
> Im a big proponent of doing this dna research. Ive attended a couple of
> lectures and read a LOT of information. I certainly think this is one
> thing
> we should explore as a group. I would want to include the Chicago Pyatts
> (who trace directly to the UK) and the Canadian Pyatts (of relatively
> unknown origin) in the study as well--I have contact with both these
> lines
> off list via the website.
>
> The biggest thing that concerns me is the cost. Last I heard it was in
> the
> hundreds. Has the cost come down? Can we apply for grant money as a
> group
> under the piattresearchers.net blanket? It is my intention to use that
> site
> as a legitimate research group (and getting nonprofit status when the
> need
> arises) and as a research group it would seem to me we should qualify for
> some grant or another. Anyone on the list familiar with grant writing?
> I
> will help in any way I can.
>
> The tecnology is no longer obscure. Most states have labs that can do
> the
> work and there are many online opportunities.
>
> Im in when the cost is reasonable! (and by the way, the test is
> painless--dna can be extracted from saliva samples or hair instead of
> blood)
>
> Robin
>
> -------Original Message-------
>
> From:
> Date: Friday, October 25, 2002 11:59:56 AM
> To:
> Subject: [PIATT] DNA dialogue?
>
> Over last weekend I attended a meeting of the Monroe Co Chapter of the
> Ohio
> Genealogical Society where Harley Dakin spoke of his involvement in the
> Cline
> Family DNA study. I found his account fascinating and have been thinking
> about
> it this week in terms of whether a similar study might be able to assist
> the
>
> Piatt/Pyatt/Pyeatt family.
>
> --snip--
>
> Y-DNA is that passed from father to son, to son, to son, and so on. It
> changes
> slowly over a long period of time. Analysis of the Y-DNA of two men can
> tell
> if
> they had a common male ancestor and can also give a range of generations
> in
> which
> that common ancestor is likely to have lived. The higher the number of
> markers
> in the DNA test and the higher the number of matches of markers between
> the
> DNA
> sequences of the individuals, the more recently the commmon ancestor is
> found in
> their lines.
>
> Let's think of the dead ends we have in Piatt research. Charles and
> Elijah
> are
> the earliest found in NY, Benjamin and William in Augusta Co VA. Were
> these
> four
> men brothers? If Y-DNA of direct male descendants of these four
> individuals
> are
> sequenced and have sufficient identical markers, then the answer is yes
> that
>
> these four would be brothers or cousins as they would share a common male
>
> ancestor.
>
> --snip--
> Laverne Ingram Piatt
> Ontario, OH
> lapiatt@.att.net
>
>
>
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