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Months ago, out of curiosity, I decided to do one of those genetic testing things. Since I'm female, I can only test the mitochondrial DNA. I was fascinated by the results. My Haplogroup (group W) weighs in at a hefty 1% of the world's population.  Almost everyone is more populous than my group. Although in some part of the world, exciting areas like Finland, W's get up between 3% to 9% of the population.  It is one of the rarest Haplogroups, which surprised me.  I thought I was just normal anglo-saxon, celtic, European stuff. 

W's are found in (in any sorts of number) in Finland, Yugoslavia, Poland (or used to be, not so much after WWII), India, China and tribal groups in Iran (Ws are Kurds).  

Because of this, I've been contacted by a Chinese professor, who was vouched for by the place I had the genetic testing done, and asked to participate in a study they are doing. They want to find out how (from the mutations breaks) W's got, well, where I got. I received my test, all the way from China, this week. I need to pick up a sterile lancet at a drugstore since they need me to bleed all over their little pieces of cardboard to do more extreme tests, and when they're done, I get a copy of the report on me, and the paper on the dispersion of Haplogroup W. 

I'll do it when we get back from Arkansas.  It should be interesting. I'm now having fantasies that I'm a (very) lost descendent of Genghis Khan. It would explain the short legs. :-)