by Brit Nicholson | Jun 29, 2022 | Blog, DNA Science
New discoveries overturn the familiar adage that X-DNA is usually from a farther back ancestor than autosomal DNA As of today, you can test the new discoveries against the old adage by comparing any amount of X-DNA to the same amount of autosomal DNA. Two months ago I...
by Brit Nicholson | May 9, 2022 | Blog, DNA Science
Double cousin predictions are now updated with many more relationship types and a peer-reviewed data source This article was previously published here on 9 March 2022. Groundbreaking developments are happening in genetic genealogy: There is a double cousin...
by Brit Nicholson | Apr 27, 2022 | Blog, DNA Science
Introducing the first ever relationship predictor to include X-DNA data in the percentage input box The tool can be found here with the new percentage box available as of 27 Apr. 2022. If you’d like some background on the principles of X-DNA, I recommend this...
by Brit Nicholson | Feb 22, 2022 | Blog, DNA Science
Introducing the first ever relationship predictions to come from a peer-reviewed data source Today I’ve released two new relationship predictors, one with population weights and one without weights. The data came from Ped-sim, which you can read about in this...
by Brit Nicholson | Jan 10, 2022 | Blog, DNA Science
Comparing kits to a known relative when multiple siblings have tested A year ago I wrote an article, Part 1, about the theoretical best way to use the kits of multiple siblings to help determine relationships of your DNA matches. More recently, in Part 2, I tested...
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