In “Escape from the Overlap Zone“, I wrote about a way to distinguish between relationships for which the shared amount…
UPDATE: Additional simulations by Andrew Millard using different recombination rates for men and women indicate that half-siblings and aunts/uncles/nieces/nephews can…
Have you ever looked at a particularly large shared segment with a distant cousin and wondered “What are the odds?” We wouldn’t…
The one thing we genealogists probably want most from our autosomal DNA matches is something they can’t give us: an…