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Helping people when additional siblings have tested

Helping people when additional siblings have tested

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...

Your Siblings Have DNA Kits, Too? Part 3. Empirical Data.

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...

New Feature: Relationship Predictions at GEDmatch

by Brit Nicholson | Dec 15, 2021 | Blog, DNA Science

GEDmatch is providing relationship predictions on its site for the first time ever. Find out how you’re related to the matches you see without leaving the page. Update Feb. 22, 2022: A newer relationship predictor, which is the first and only predictor to use...
Your Siblings Have DNA Kits, Too? Part 2. Testing the Methods.

Your Siblings Have DNA Kits, Too? Part 2. Testing the Methods.

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...

Has Relationship Prediction Drastically Improved?

by Brit Nicholson | Nov 5, 2021 | Blog, DNA Science

A DNA tester has a few different options to see the possible relationships for their matches, including at the testing sites themselves. A new one has functionality like no other. I used to not be a fan of relationship prediction for genetic genealogy, wondering why...
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