by DNA-Sci | May 18, 2020 | Blog, DNA Science
How to automatically identify your most important DNA matches I recently had this idea for a project in Python that could save me a lot of work: What if a computer program could identify your most important DNA relatives? I was sure that the results wouldn’t be...
by DNA-Sci | May 15, 2020 | Blog, DNA Science
Previous cousin statistics charts haven’t shown the differences in shared DNA between paternal and maternal relatives. The average recombination rate in mothers is about 42. Conversely, genomes in fathers only recombine about 27 times, on average. This leads to...
by DNA-Sci | May 8, 2020 | Blog, DNA Science
A comparison of three models, including updated amount of shared DNA between various relatives and ancestors Note: this article is relatively old. I’ve updated my model to be far more accurate, in light of recently published standard deviations, and far more...
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