In 2003 Kittles and his business partner, Dr. Gina Paige, started their company African Ancestry. For another, hes used to scrutiny. In 2006 he took African Ancestrys Y-chromosome test and was told his DNA matched with Nigerias Ibo people. He has published on the prostate cancer genetics of African Americans. Rick Kittles, PhD, received a BS in biology from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1989 and a PhD in biological sciences from George Washington University in 1998. Summarize this article for a 10 years old. Kittles, who joined Chicagos faculty in 2006, hardly imagined any scene like Sampsons Lunsar homecoming when he began constructing the DNA database that would become the foundation of African Ancestry. Kittles's tests also confirmed what researchers had long suspected; around 30 percent of African Americans had European ancestors, primarily due to the rape of slave women by white slaveholders. George Kittle - Wikipedia Rick Antonius Kittles (born in Sylvania, Georgia, United States) is an American biologist specializing in human genetics. Kittles had a few fierce critics within the African-American community as well; charging African Americans a fee to learn about their African origins was "like charging Holocaust victims a fee to confirm their relatives were in fact gassed," University of Maryland anthropologist Fatima Jackson told the on-line magazine Salon. But 15 years ago, when he first embarked on his database research, he says, I was interested in exploring genetic variation in Africa, where DNA diversity is broader and richer than anywhere else on the globe. Volume 51 : profiles from the international Black community Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Dr. Rick Kittles for Nobel Peace Prize - iPetitions He earned his PhD in Biological Sciences from the George Washington University and a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences from Rochester Institute of Technology. "The Finnish Population Bottlenecks: Exploiting the Evolutionary History of Genes for Population and Genetic Disease Studies." Thats mainly because of the behavior of slaveholders during slavery, Kittles says. [14] Nowadays, Kittles and his team have been busy conducting genetic sequencing trials to try and find variations in genes that affect a person's response to drugs.[12]. He is also Associate Director of Health Equities of COH Comprehensive Cancer Center. Seattle Times, May 30, 2000, p. A1; April 25, 2003, p. A7. Terms of Use, Jo S(usenbach) Kittinger (1955-) Biography - Writings, Sidelights - Personal, Addresses, Career, Member, Work in Progress, Rick Kittles - Concocted African Ancestry, Rick Kittles - Directed Prostate Cancer Study, Rick Kittles - Callers Jammed Howard Switchboard, Rick Kittles - Attracted Celebrity Customers.

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