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Collecting Your Cells
Once you decide
to join or start a DNA project, you will
order a small collection
kit that you can use at home--nothing messy or painful or requiring a
trip to a lab. DNA tests for genealogical purposes virtually all use
DNA from buccal cells (the inside of the mouth:)
Your kit will will arrive by mail and will
contain two small plastic brushes--sort of like mini-tooth brushes and a
couple of vials of sterile fluid. Also include are simple, easy to
follow instructions (the pink paper in the picture at top right.) You will
use one of the brushes to scrub the inside of your cheek for a period of a
minute or so. Then you will place the brush end into one of the
vials of fluid and disconnect the brush allowing it to fall into the vial.
Once you've recapped the vial, it's ready to return via mail.
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Paperwork
In addition to
returning your cheek cells to the lab, there will be some paperwork
included. The purpose of this paperwork is to let you determine the degree
of privacy you wish for your results. You may choose to keep your
results totally private--reported only to you. The testing company,
that will be used for the Dorsey project also offers the option of having
your email address forwarded to anyone with whom you have a relevant
match. Included with your test kit will be the optional release form
to the right.
In addition,
Family Tree DNA will distribute legal
release forms allowing for the sharing of the test results with the Group
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Family Tree DNA
Release Form (Optional)
I, ___________________________, Kit # ________, give permission to
Family Tree DNA (FTDNA) to make my biographical information available
to a genetic match. This will be done according to guidelines set
forth in the section entitled "Legal" on the FamilyTreeDNA.com/legal.html
web site that I have read and understand. If another party’s genetic
DNA sample matches is a relevant match to my DNA, I want FTDNA to
release to them my email address or my mailing address if the email
address is not supplied. Unless I sign this Release Form, my personal
information will not be shared with anyone who may match my DNA
markers exactly, now or in the future. In the event I sign this
document, I understand that FTDNA will share only my email address
with another person who shares my personal family genetic marker, and
I hold Family Tree DNA harmless for all consequences of sharing this
information with that other individual(s).Family Tree DNA is
establishing a database of family ethnic origins. If you would like to
be in this web accessible database, which will not contain your name,
only your most distant ancestors country of origin, (male if Y-DNA or
female if mtDNA) please write the country in the space provided.
Ancestry's Country of Origin_______________________
Unless you are a Native American or of Native
American Ancestry,your Country of Origin is not the USA. It should be
the country where your ancestors came from.
Signature______________________ Date_________
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