How Much of an Ancestor’s DNA Do You Have?

by | Apr 10, 2020 | Blog, DNA Science

Or, more interestingly, how much it will vary and how you can easily increase the number and quality of your DNA matches The model used to produce these numbers has been updated a few times. More accurate numbers for DNA coverage can be found here. The DNA testing...

Comparison of Autosomal Genetic Models

by | Apr 8, 2020 | Blog, DNA Science

Genetic Modeling Background A couple of years ago I made my first model of genetic inheritance. It was probably about as simple as such a model could be. Rather than having 22 separate autosomal chromosomes, it was more like having one long string of connected...

Code for X Chromosome Model, in Python

by | Mar 25, 2020 | DNA Code

# Copyright (c) 2020 Brit Nicholson. # All rights reserved. This program is made available under # the terms of the Simple Non Code License (SNCL) v2.3.0, # which is available at # https://github.com/MysteryDash/Simple-Non-Code-License/blob/master/License.txt # This...

Modeling the Inheritance of X Chromosome DNA

by | Mar 23, 2020 | Blog, DNA Science

First X Model Attempt In June, 2019 I started working on a model of X Chromosome inheritance. The model ran into some problems and I seemed to have given up on it for some time. Seven months later I decided that this was something I still really wanted to do. I set up...

Code for Combined DNA Calculator

by | Feb 14, 2020 | DNA Code

# Copyright (c) 2020 Brit Nicholson. # All rights reserved. This program is made available under # the terms of the Simple Non Code License (SNCL) v2.3.0, # which is available at # https://github.com/MysteryDash/Simple-Non-Code-License/blob/master/License.txt # This...