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BanyanDNA and the Habsburgs

February 8, 2025 thednageek 8d Comments

A biology lesson wrapped up in a history lesson wrapped up in a nerdy experiment.

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Posted in: Making Sense of DNA Filed under: BanyanDNA, consanguinity, Habsburgs, inbreeding depression, relationship estimation, shared centimorgans
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Power-Up Your DNA Analyses

July 1, 2024 thednageek 8d Comments

Take your genetic genealogy to the next level using shared match information in BanyanDNA.

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Posted in: Busting Brick Walls, Making Sense of DNA Filed under: BanyanDNA, Enhanced Shared Matches, pedigree collapse, standard deviation, statistics, unknown parentage, validation
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Is Your Family Tree Biologically Correct?

March 30, 2024 thednageek 22d Comments

BanyanDNA gives us more power to validate our biological trees.

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Posted in: Making Sense of DNA Filed under: autosomal DNA, BanyanDNA, hypothesis testing, validation
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Gordon Revisited

January 28, 2024 thednageek 19d Comments

  Several years ago, I helped an adoptee I called “Gordon” identify his biological father. (Gordon is a pseudonym, as…

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Posted in: Making Sense of DNA Filed under: adoptees, Are Your Parents Related, AYPR, BanyanDNA, complex trees, incest, simulations
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DNA Doesn’t Lie, but It Sometimes Speaks in Riddles

November 7, 2023 thednageek 30d Comments

DNA outliers are more likely to be paternal than maternal. Here’s why.

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Posted in: Making Sense of DNA Filed under: BanyanDNA, Blaine Bettinger, crossing over, distributions, grandparent–grandchild, histograms, outliers
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Jan and the Complex Pedigree Analysis

September 29, 2023 thednageek 9d Comments

We can analyze complex pedigrees with more sophisticated methods.

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Posted in: Making Sense of DNA Filed under: Afrikaners, BanyanDNA, complex trees, hypothesis testing, pedigree collapse, relationship prediction, simulations, South Africa, statistics

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