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The Valentine’s Price War, 2018

February 8, 2018 thednageek 1 Comment

Well, friends, it looks like we’re in another price war. The companies really went at it during the Thanksgiving–Christmas season,…

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Posted in: DNA Testing Filed under: sales

Science the Heck Out of Your DNA — Part 5

January 25, 2018 thednageek 5d Comments

Scroll down for links to other posts in this series. I presented a talk on this method at the i4GG…

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Posted in: Making Sense of DNA Filed under: adoptees, autosomal DNA, hypothesis testing, probability, relationship prediction, unknown parentage

atDNA Processing Times

January 22, 2018 thednageek 8d Comments

How badly did the massive holiday sales of DNA tests impact processing times at the main companies? Not much! At…

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Posted in: DNA Testing Filed under: 23andMe, AncestryDNA, Family Tree DNA, Living DNA, MyHeritage, processing time

Science the Heck Out of Your DNA — Part 4

January 16, 2018 thednageek 28d Comments

Scroll down for links to other posts in this series. I presented a talk on this method at the i4GG…

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Posted in: Making Sense of DNA Filed under: adoptees, autosomal DNA, hypothesis testing, probability, relationship prediction, unknown parentage

MyHeritage Overhauls Their Matching Algorithm

January 12, 2018 thednageek 35d Comments

MyHeritage has exploded onto the genetic genealogy scene, growing from scratch to a database of more than one million people…

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Posted in: DNA Testing Filed under: chromosome browser, MyHeritage, relationship prediction, relative matching

Genealogy for the Greater Good

January 11, 2018 thednageek 3d Comments

On 6 February 1942, the body of an Australian sailor was found in a Carley float (a type of life…

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Posted in: Lagniappe Filed under: forensic genealogy, haplotype, history, mitochondrial DNA, unknown sailor

Science the Heck Out of Your DNA — Part 3

thednageek 28d Comments

Scroll down for links to other posts in this series. I presented a talk on this method at the i4GG…

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Posted in: Making Sense of DNA Filed under: adoptees, AncestryDNA Matching White Paper, autosomal DNA, hypothesis testing, probability, relationship prediction, simulations, unknown parentage

Science the Heck Out of Your DNA — Part 2

January 9, 2018 thednageek 14d Comments

Scroll down for links to other posts in this series. I presented a talk on this method at the i4GG…

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Posted in: Making Sense of DNA Filed under: adoptees, AncestryDNA Matching White Paper, autosomal DNA, hypothesis testing, probability, relationship prediction, unknown parentage

Science the Heck Out of Your DNA — Part 1

January 2, 2018 thednageek 30d Comments

Scroll down for links to other posts in this series. I presented a talk on this method at the i4GG…

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Posted in: Making Sense of DNA Filed under: adoptees, autosomal DNA, hypothesis testing, probability, relationship prediction, unknown parentage

What’s Coming Down the Pike: 23andMe

December 19, 2017 thednageek 7d Comments

Learn what 23andMe has to say at the i4GG conference.

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Posted in: DNA Testing, Ethnicity Estimates Filed under: 23andMe, i4GG, mitochondrial DNA, scientific papers

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