Trace your Ancestral Roots
The DNA that we inherited from our parents contains a wealth of information about our past. Our focus at Argus Biosciences is on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is inherited from mother to children. Customers order a simple kit to collect cells from their cheek. When the kit is received at Argus, we analyze the mitochondrial DNA sequence. Remarkably, this sequence contains a chronicle of your ancient past, passed down through your maternal line. There are actually many stories about our past - how we as a species developed in Africa, how we migrated into Asia, Europe and the Americas, how we responded to the last great Ice Age - that are revealed by the synthesis of anthropological studies and analysis of mtDNA within populations. Our website has a number of pages describing the science behind our analysis - the Faqs page is a good place to start. The results of our analysis are sent to the customer in the form of a certificate and a personalized phylogenetic tree showing your mtDNA lineage. We also offer a number of unique products, including a 'partner package' that compares two mitochondrial DNA sequences with each other.
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