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DNA Basics: What is DNA?

March 20, 2018 thednageek 6d Comments

Have you ever wondered what DNA does when it’s not helping you with your family history? Understanding its day job…

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Posted in: Making Sense of DNA Filed under: DNA basics, junk DNA, mutations, nucleotides

Which DNA Test Is Best Outside the US?

March 14, 2018 thednageek 31d Comments

AncestryDNA dominates the genetic genealogy market in America, but until 2016 they only sold tests in the USA, the UK,…

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Posted in: DNA Testing

Fun With Factorials

March 6, 2018 thednageek 12d Comments

Ever wonder how much computer processing goes into relative matching? Probably not, but there’s some fun math behind it, so…

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Posted in: Lagniappe Filed under: 23andMe, AncestryDNA, computation, database size, Family Tree DNA, MyHeritage, relative matching

DNA Quest: Free DNA Tests for Adoptees and Those Hoping to Find Them

March 5, 2018 thednageek 8d Comments

MyHeritage has a history of using their resources to benefit humanity, and they have just launched a new program to…

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Posted in: Finding Family

23andMe Expands its Ancestry Composition Reports

February 28, 2018 thednageek 12d Comments

23andMe announced today that they will soon be adding 120 new geographic regions to their Ancestry Composition report (sometimes called…

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Posted in: DNA Testing, Ethnicity Estimates Filed under: 23andMe, autosomal DNA

Science the Heck Out of Your DNA — Part 6

February 18, 2018 thednageek 14d Comments

Scroll down for links to other posts in this series. Ted, or When Close Relatives Aren’t Available About 3 years…

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

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 10d Comments

Scroll down for links to other posts in this series. Ruth: Using Probability to Guide Future Testing The case of…

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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 36d Comments

Scroll down for links to other posts in this series. GIs in Germany: Which Brother? In late 1919 or early…

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

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