Mathematical Formulas for Genetic Genealogy

Mathematical Formulas for Genetic Genealogy

This post won’t be everyone’s cup of tea. But I’ve used these formulas countless times in programming in order to automate processes, which saves me a lot of time and work and prevents errors. Ethnicity The first time I ever wrote a formula for...

No Recombination of X Chromosomes

What’s the probability that two children share one whole copy of the X chromosome without sharing a father? I’ve made an X chromosome model that predicts shared X DNA percentages and ranges for various ancestors, but I haven’t yet calculated ranges...