by DNA-Sci | Sep 23, 2020 | Blog, DNA Science
I’ve been brought in to work on several cases in which incest has been suspected and later confirmed in a family. The first thing I’d like to ask someone when they discover that there’s incest in their family is if they need to talk to someone....
by DNA-Sci | Aug 19, 2020 | Blog, DNA Science
Update, 3 March 2020: When I finally thought to share this information, I found out that I wasn’t the only person to have ever tried it. Still, I was encouraged to quickly finish writing up my methodology, as there weren’t any other instructions available....
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...
by DNA-Sci | Apr 10, 2020 | Blog, DNA Science
Or, more interestingly, how much it will vary and how you can easily increase the number and quality of your DNA matches The model used to produce these numbers has been updated a few times. More accurate numbers for DNA coverage can be found here. The DNA testing...
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