Be part of a genetic map of
Britain
Could your family be descended from Saxon
farmers? Or Norman invaders? Or even Viking warriors? And could our colonising ancestors be responsible
for the common diseases that affect modern day
Britain
?
Cancer Research
UK
is supporting a national study,
funded by the Wellcome Trust, to help answer these questions and is looking for
volunteers from rural areas to simply give a sample of their DNA.
The People of the British Isles Project
aims to collect blood samples from 3,500 people whose families are from rural
populations throughout theUK
. The data collected will be used to explore
historic patterns of movement within and between different regions and build up
a genetic map of
Britain
. It will be enormously helpful in studies of
inherited susceptibility to common diseases such as cancer, heart disease and
Alzheimer's disease.
If you are over 18 and born in the same
rural locality as your parents and all four grandparents, the team leading the
study would love to hear from you. All
they need is 30 minutes of your time to fill in a brief questionnaire and about
20ml of your blood.
If you would like to volunteer for the
project or would first like some further information, please contact:
Susan Tonks of the Department of Clinical
Pharmacology, Radcliffe Infirmary,Road,Oxford.
Tel 01865 228 627.
E-mail [email protected]
Or check out www.peopleofthebritishisles.org |