Amazon and Caribbean - Ancestral Origins
Amazon According to a 2021 ecology study, only 3% of the Earth's surface remains unexplored. Of this percentage, a large part corresponds to the Americas and more specifically to the Amazon basin. In the 21st century, tribes in Brazil are still discovering tribes that are completely isolated from the world, which allows us to learn about a new [...]
Scandinavian ethnicity - Ancestral origins
Geographically, the Scandinavian peninsula is located in northern Europe and includes the countries of Norway and Sweden. As a region, Scandinavia refers to a larger area comprising the aforementioned countries of Norway and Sweden as well as Finland, Denmark and Iceland. All these territories share a common history and culture. The [...]
Sarda ethnic group - Ancestral origins
The Sardinian ethnic group is native to the Mediterranean Italian island of Sardinia. The Sardinians have maintained very little DNA modification since the Paleolithic era. This means that their genetic information has remained almost unchanged since the first settlers on the island, more than 12,000 years ago due to geographical isolation. On the other hand, it is quite [...]
Basque Ethnicity - Ancestral Origins
Between 3500 B.C. and 3000 B.C., the Indo-European culture, located between Europe and Asia, had as the backbone of its technology the wheel, metalworking, agriculture and animal husbandry. This population had its own language, culture and religion, from which arose a large number of [...]
Northwest Europe region features
Northwest Europe comprises a group of countries close to each other, such as Belgium, the Netherlands, northern France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. This region has been historically influenced by various cultures, such as the Gothic, Celtic and Roman. Geographic and Genetic Landscape The relatively flat terrain of northwestern Europe, shaped by the [...]
Alopecia Areata
What is alopecia areata? Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disorder in which the immune system attacks the surface of the skin through which hair grows (hair follicle). It is the most common autoimmune disorder worldwide. Types of alopecia areata The most striking case of alopecia areata is [...]
Types of diabetes
In our body there is a constant control of the amount of glucose available to our body (blood glucose). This process is known as glucose homeostasis in which two very important hormones secreted by the pancreas are involved: insulin and glucagon. When glucose levels drop too low our body […]
Types of vaccines
Vaccines are a current and recurring topic of conversation. However, this is not something new. The origin of vaccines dates back to 1802 when Edward Jenner revolutionized the fight against smallpox. He noted that people who worked with livestock often did not contract the disease during outbreaks of […]
What is heritability?
We have written this short entry to provide an overview of the concept of heritability and the recent addition to the ADNTRO health report where we provide (1) “estimated heritability” or (2) “explained heritability”. The definition of heritability is “a statistical concept that describes how much of the variation in a given trait can be attributed to […]
ADNTRO 2021 - Summary of your journey with us
We would like to dedicate this small space to thank you for choosing us to navigate your genetic code and give you a brief tour of your DNATRO journey with the most important updates that we have been releasing over the last year, in all areas of our report. Remember, "Your DNA doesn't change, but progress [...]".