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This entry was posted on 6/21/2006 8:27 AM and is filed under Ancestry.

When I posted the blog last week, I also let the reporters I had talked to know about the results so they could get the correct information out there. 

Here are links to news articles in the New York Times and Miami Herald.

SCIENCE   | June 21, 2006
Back to Earth After Taking Fall From Genghis's Family Tree
By NICHOLAS WADE
 A second DNA test has revealed that an accounting professor is not descended from Genghis Khan after all.

 
Professor's Genghis Khan roots die a quick deathA University of Miami accounting professor 
who garnered brief fame for his genetic link to Genghis Khan will have to put his dreams of 
marauding on hold.
The full article will be available on the Web for a limited time:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/14864728.htm
(c) 2006 MiamiHerald.com and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved.

 
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    • 6/21/2006 6:17 PM Tuby wrote:
      I'm a Mongolian who live in South Miami, Fl. I've read the article in Miami Herald and I was kind of upset about the tone of it about Genghis khan. It's been revised by historians about his false reputation of brutal murderer.
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