The best-selling author of <em>The Seven Daughters of Eve</em> now turns his sights on the United States, one of the most genetically variegated countries in the world. From the blue-blooded pockets of old-WASP New England to the vast tribal lands of the Navajo, Bryan Sykes takes us on a historical genetic tour, interviewing genealogists, geneticists, anthropologists, and everyday Americans with compelling ancestral stories. His findings suggest:<br /><br />     • Of Americans whose ancestors came as slaves, virtually all have some European DNA.<br />     • Racial intermixing appears least common among descendants of early New England colonists.<br />     • There is clear evidence of Jewish genes among descendants of southwestern Spanish Catholics. <br />     • Among white Americans, evidence of African DNA is most common in the South.<br />     • European genes appeared among Native Americans as early as ten thousand years ago. <br /><br />An unprecedented look into America's genetic mosaic and how we perceive race, <em>DNA USA</em> challenges the very notion of what we think it means to be American.