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Raising funds on Google+ vs. Facebook

Discover the potential Malagasy genotype through crowd-sourced analysis and the importance of social platforms like Google+.

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As some of you know I've been looking for a Malagasy genotype. I found one. Or at least a potential one. At this point I need to have the person genotyped. I've sent the kit overseas, and within 1-2 months I should have a post up analyzing the ancestral affiliations of this individual (who is of Betsileo background). All that being said this costs money, and I'm willing to pay for it myself (in fact, I have). But the total costs is ~$280, and that's not trivial. I'd like to do this sort of "crowd-sourced" analysis in the future, but not at this personal cost (I'm not including my labor hours, just the bare minimum fixed costs of shipping the materials, and typing the sample). So I started thinking of various ways to fund this project, as I have a large number of people who follow this blog, and, who ...

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