WHAT'S IN YOUR GENES?

By SHIRLEY VELASQUEZ
November 12, 2008 - THE LATEST social networking is not on Facebook or Myspace, it's happening at DNA-testing parties across the city. Rather than getting trashed at bars, New Yorkers are swabbing their cheeks en masse at house parties and then sending saliva samples back to labs to help trace their ancestors. But for Latinos, an umbrella group consisting of various ethnicities, races and religions, tracing...

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