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AncestryDNA Is Using FIRs to Distinguish Full and Half Siblings

February 7, 2019 thednageek 25d Comments

Did you know that AncestryDNA is using fully-identical regions to distinguish full siblings from half siblings?  And apparently has been…

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Posted in: Making Sense of DNA Filed under: AncestryDNA, AncestryDNA Matching White Paper, full siblings, fully-identical regions, half siblings, relationship prediction

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