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All posts by Sarah Abel

Can DNA tests prove a person’s nationality?

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Written by Sarah Abel 22/08/2018 Tags: CBSA dna migrants nationality refugees

In this post, Sarah Abel discusses recent reports of commercial DNA ancestry tests being used to investigate the origins of refugees. Continue reading →

Can DNA testing end racism?

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Written by Sarah Abel 25/09/2017 Tags: Charlottesville dna extremism far-right racism white nationalism white supremacy

Post-doc Sarah Abel discusses the impact of DNA ancestry testing on White nationalist communities, and explores to what extent genetics can help tackle racism.

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What happens to your genetic data when you take a commercial DNA ancestry test?

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Written by Sarah Abel 12/07/2017 Tags: 23andMe AncestryDNA DTC genetic ancestry testing genetic ownership privacy research consent terms and conditions

Over the last couple of months, a number of articles have appeared in the media and blogosphere highlighting the issues of data ownership and privacy in relation to direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic ancestry testing. 

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What Makes Us?

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Written by Sarah Abel 14/06/2017 Tags: art dna testing human migrations music pint of science soundwork

Artist and PhD researcher Kelcy Davenport discusses her inspiration for the soundwork “What Makes Us?”, which she presented at this year’s Pint of Science festival in Cambridge. Continue reading →

Who Do We Think We Are?

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Written by Sarah Abel 14/04/2017 Tags: britainsdna dna testing genealogy livingdna unesco wdytya who do you think you are? live

CitiGen post-doc Sarah Abel discusses her recent visit to the UK’s largest family history event, Who Do You Think You Are? Live, held from 6th-8th April at the NEC in Birmingham. Continue reading →

Could a DNA test unthrone the British royalty?

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Written by Sarah Abel 17/03/2017 Tags: illegitimacy kinship mtDNA Richard III royal lineages Y chromosome

This week’s blog – compiled by CitiGen post-docs Pierpaolo Maisano Delser, Bart Lambert, and Sarah Abel – turns to one of the UK’s most widely publicised DNA testing cases in recent years: the genetic study of the remains of Richard III, excavated from a city council car park in Leicester in 2012. Continue reading →

RootsTech, through an anthropologist’s eyes

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Written by Sarah Abel 20/02/2017 Tags: ancestry family history genealogy lds church mormons rootstech

Last week, CitiGen post-doc Sarah Abel attended North America’s largest annual family history conference, RootsTech, held from 8th-11th February in Salt Lake City. This post comprises a collection of her thoughts and observations from the event. Continue reading →

Discussion: Using DNA to excavate our collective pasts

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Written by Sarah Abel 08/12/2016 Tags: ancient dna genealogy genetic testing history

CitiGen workshop at King’s Manor, University of York. [Photo by M. Collins]
On Wednesday 7 December, CitiGen and ArchSci2020 (a new Marie-Skłodowska Curie network) organised a workshop on the use of palaeogenomic data at the University of York. Continue reading →

Recent Posts

  • CitiGen PL Hannes Schroeder presents paper at workshop in Barcelona 12/12/2019
  • CitiGen postdoc Sarah Abel to present at AAA conference 15/11/2019
  • Can DNA really tell us who we are? 27/09/2019
  • Sarah Abel and Hannes Schroeder participate in the HERA closing conference in Gdansk 10/09/2019


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 This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 649307.

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CitiGen is an international research project that aims to study how modern and ancient genomic data are being used to shape public understandings of the past.

Headquartered at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, CitiGen involves academic partners from Iceland, Ireland, and the UK, as well as non-academic partners from the fields of genetic ancestry testing, family tree research, and public engagement with science.

The project is funded by the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) Joint Research Programme “Uses of the Past”.