Scroll down for links to other posts in this series. Basic Probability Last year, I wrote a post entitled…
AncestryDNA sold more than three times as many DNA tests during this year’s Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale as during the…
I received word today from Yaniv Erlich, the Chief Science Officer at MyHeritage, that their database contains 670,000 individuals! That’s…
Well, it’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks in DNA World, what with AncestryDNA reporting that they’d surpassed 6 million…
NOTE: The original version of this post used an inappropriate simplification of the math. Ann Turner, Louis Kessler, and Andrew…
Bessie Elizabeth Reid (1871–1905) had a hard life. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on 17 Jul 1871, she was the…
I recently published a post in which I estimated the effective database sizes for Family Tree DNA, 23andMe, and MyHeritage…
The past few months have brought some exciting news from two of the main autosomal DNA (atDNA) companies: AncestryDNA exceeded 3 million…
AncestryDNA and 23andMe periodically announce the sizes of their autosomal databases. AncestryDNA reached 3 million in January, and 23andMe just announced…
In a televised interview on 7 April 2017, the CEO of 23andMe, Anne Wojcicki, discussed the company’s new FDA-approved disease-risk…