by DNA-Sci | Feb 14, 2021 | Blog, DNA Science
You probably got here from this page. If not, it’s probably a good idea to go look at it and see what this page is about before continuing. Some of the statistics here won’t actually be viewable at 23andMe. The real purpose of this page is to provide the...
by DNA-Sci | Jan 5, 2021 | Blog, DNA Science
People often ask how their DNA match with a cousin will be inflated if they have a double relationship with that cousin. Some helpful people have offered that you can look up shared averages and ranges for certain relationships and double all of them, or for two...
by DNA-Sci | Dec 31, 2020 | Blog, DNA Science
The amount of centiMorgans (cMs) we share with a relative tells us how closely related we are to them. Most people think about cM as a length. In fact, geneticists refer to it as “genetic length.” A smaller subset recognize that cM is the probability, in...
by DNA-Sci | Sep 23, 2020 | Blog, DNA Science
I’ve been brought in to work on several cases in which incest has been suspected and later confirmed in a family. The first thing I’d like to ask someone when they discover that there’s incest in their family is if they need to talk to someone....
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