by Brit Nicholson | Feb 3, 2022 | Blog, DNA Science
Coincidentally, while testing the best methods for using multiple siblings’ kits, a person I’m helping has a close match to a sibling pair. This is a practical application of helping people with advanced genetic genealogy methods. I was recently finishing...
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...
by Brit Nicholson | Dec 2, 2021 | Blog, DNA Science
A year ago I wrote an article about the best way, theoretically, to use DNA kits from multiple siblings. How does it hold up to testing? In Part 1 I described what you would need to do in order to use all of the information found in multiple siblings’ kits. It...
by Brit Nicholson | Mar 12, 2021 | Blog, DNA Science
You already know that you get 25% DNA, on average, from a particular grandparent. But we can do better than that. See the relationship predictor that uses the most accurate ranges of shared DNA available. Suppose that you and some friends want to place a bet. You each...
by Brit Nicholson | Feb 26, 2021 | Blog, DNA Science
How much of an ancestor’s or relative’s DNA do you reproduce when you combine kits of multiple testers? I wrote the original article on DNA coverage from multiple kits a few years ago. I included tables that showed the amount of an ancestor’s autosomal DNA...
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