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The Science Behind Relationship Predictors

May 27, 2023 thednageek 8d Comments

Relationship Predictor Survey There are now several tools that predict which genealogical relationships are most likely for given amounts of…

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Posted in: Making Sense of DNA Filed under: cM Explainer, MyHeritage DNA, relationship prediction, shared centimorgans, Shared cM Project, Shared cM Tool

In Which Citizen Science Finds an Error, and the Error Is Fixed

May 2, 2023 thednageek 9d Comments

A key reason to evaluate our DNA tools is to improve them. After all, that’s how science works: a perennial…

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Posted in: Making Sense of DNA Filed under: anomalies, DNA Painter, relationship prediction, shared centimorgans, Shared cM Project, Shared cM Tool
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Relationship Prediction Tools: Which Is Best?

March 15, 2023 thednageek 27d Comments

Science is like a ratchet. Each discovery builds upon previous work, and ideas that withstand scrutiny become stepping stones to…

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Posted in: Making Sense of DNA Filed under: AncestryDNA, cM Explainer, MyHeritage DNA, predicted relationships, relationship prediction, Shared cM Project, Shared cM Tool
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You Can’t Get There From Here

December 16, 2021 thednageek 7d Comments

The Shared cM Tool at DNA Painter contains two completely different sets of data. Here’s why.
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Posted in: Making Sense of DNA Filed under: advanced, probabilities, probability, relationship prediction, shared centimorgans, Shared cM Project, Shared cM Tool, What Are the Odds? (WATO)

What’s in Your Toolbox? — DNA Painter Shared cM Project Tool

January 5, 2019 thednageek 7d Comments

Source: DNA Painter Shared cM Project Tool Tool Type: website Purpose: rank possible relationships given the shared amount of DNA…

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Posted in: Lagniappe, Making Sense of DNA Filed under: DNA Painter, probabilities, relationship prediction, Shared cM Project, Shared cM Project Tool

Julie’s Story

September 6, 2017 thednageek 7d Comments

In “Escape from the Overlap Zone“, I wrote about a way to distinguish between relationships for which the shared amount…

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Posted in: Finding Family Filed under: adoptees, AncestryDNA Matching White Paper, overlap zone, probability, relationship prediction, Shared cM Project, simulations

The Journal of Genetic Genealogy and Scientific Publishing

May 12, 2017 thednageek 2d Comments

In May 2017, the Journal of Genetic Genealogy renewed publication with a new issue after an extended hiatus. You can…

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Posted in: Lagniappe Filed under: Ann Turner, Blaine Bettinger, CeCe Moore, Genome Mate Pro, Journal of Genetic Genealogy, mitochondrial DNA, scientific papers, Shared cM Project, yDNA

The Limits of Predicting Relationships Using DNA  

December 19, 2016 thednageek 182d Comments

The one thing we genealogists probably want most from our autosomal DNA matches is something they can’t give us: an…

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Posted in: Making Sense of DNA Filed under: AncestryDNA, AncestryDNA Matching White Paper, DNA Detectives, probability, relationship prediction, Shared cM Project, simulations

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