by Brit Nicholson | Jul 19, 2021 | Blog, DNA Science
That’s a common questions I see from people researching their DNA matches. Until now the only answer we could give was “because DNA is variable.” That’s a correct answer. But we could provide something more useful: A quantitative answer. When...
by Brit Nicholson | Apr 6, 2021 | Blog, DNA Science
Relationship predictions are now updated to include differences in maternal and paternal recombination rates as well as validation of ranges by peer-reviewed standard deviations The calculator can be found here. I’ve previously published exact averages and very...
by Brit Nicholson | Feb 25, 2021 | Blog, DNA Science
The only cousin statistics that acknowledge the differences in paternal and maternal relatives due to recombination rates. I’ve written an article that shows the percentages of shared DNA that a person shares with various relatives and ancestors. These are the...
by Brit Nicholson | Feb 24, 2021 | Blog, DNA Science
The only cousin statistics that acknowledge the differences in paternal and maternal relatives due to recombination rates. See the relationship probability calculator that’s based on this same model. I’ve written an article that shows the percentages of shared...
by Brit Nicholson | Dec 28, 2020 | DNA Code
I’ve written two Python algorithms that I describe in this article. The algorithm below works for downloaded segment-level match files from GEDmatch. The other algorithm, found here, is for match files downloaded from MyHeritage. # Copyright (c) 2020 Brit...
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