Thomas Goetz has written another terrific article about genetic testing and the Personal Genome Project. This article, entitled “The Gene Collector,” appears in Wired Magazine. The article provides some new information about the PGP, including some of the incredibly detailed phenotype information that will be collected from the next 100,000 volunteers in the project.
The article also reveals the tenth and final participant of the “First 10”, the original 10 volunteers in the PGP. I wrote about the first nine volunteers in the PGP almost exactly one year ago and noted that the tenth participant had not yet released his or her name. The Wired article, however, mentions a number of participants including George Church, Esther Dyson, Rosalynn Gill, John Halamka, and Steven Pinker. Indeed, a check of the PGP website confirms that Steven Pinker is the last PGP volunteer to be identified.
The next interview in the TGG Interview Series with members of the Genetic Genealogy field is with Katherine Hope Borges. Katherine is the Director of the 
Terry Barton is co-founder of 
If you’ve ever even thought about testing your own DNA for genealogical purposes, then you are almost guaranteed to have heard of 
Genetic genealogy has been commercially available since 2000, and in the last 8 years many genealogists have used this new tool to learn about their ancestry. Over the course of the next two weeks, I will be sharing interviews I recently conducted with 9 individuals who have had a huge impact on the field of genetic genealogy. The list includes – in the random order that their interview will appear – Bennett Greenspan, Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak, Terry Barton, Alastair Greenshields, Whit Athey, Ann Turner, Katherine Hope Borges, Max Blankfeld, and Ana Oquendo Pabón.