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In my last post, I described how I obtained my results from three Genetic Clustering tools:  Genetic Affairs – by Evert-Jan Blom Collins’ Leeds Method 3D – at DNAGedcom Shared Clustering – by Jonathan Brecher Pretty pictures are nice to look at. But what we really want is to be able ...

Over the past 6 months, everyone has been jumping on board using genetic clustering techniques to help them partition their DNA matches into their ancestral origins. The basic idea is to compare all the people that each of your DNA matches also match to. These are not segment matches being compared, but are ...

The layout of the DNA match summary by Nancy Jarman-Dunn in a Facebook post in the Genetic Genealogy Tips & Techniques group caught my eye. I think I’ll summarize my results this year using Nancy’s layout and update it every year in the future to see my progress. I keep track of this information in a ...

I’ve been working on DMT version 3.0 for the past few months and was hoping not to have to release anything before it’s ready. Unfortunately, a few file format changes at some of the companies have caused DMT 2.1.1 to no longer recognize their files. In October, I noted that Family Tree DNA made ...

During the summer, I took a DNA test with @Living_DNA. In addition to testing, I also took advantage of their free uploads, and uploaded both my 23andMe raw data, and my Family Tree DNA raw data. I already posted about my results from my test, but at that time, their “Family Networks” which is what they ...

A few days ago, Family Tree DNA released a new version of its chromosome browser. There are other people that have already described the improvements, including Kitty Cooper and Roberta Estes, but I’d like to focus on one item that’s changed that affects Double Match Triangulator users. New Link to ...

Today at the #kdgs2018 in Kelowna B.C. was a full slate of talks in 4 time slots, 2 in the morning and 2 in the afternoon, with 7 speakers to choose from in each time slot. The venue today was another beautiful space, this time at the Okanagan College.   Claire Smith-Burns opened the day from the grand ...

It was a good day at #kdgs2018 here in Kelowna, B.C. The venue during the day was the beautiful Kelowna district library downtown. The second floor of the library contains two full rows of shelves that are the reference materials belonging to the Kelowna District Genealogical Society. I’m sure there are ...

WeGene is a Chinese company that up to now has done DNA testing in Shenzhen, China. They have grown to about 300,000 customers. They are going to open a second lab in Hong Kong so they can start offering services abroad. An article a couple of days ago on genomeweb gives more of the details. Their main site ...

In my last post, I compared the raw data from 5 DNA testing companies. I ended that article by describing how I then took my 5 sets of raw data and combined them into a more complete set. I ended up with a file that contained 1,389,750 different SNPs of which just 20,688 (1.5%) were no-calls. I then described ...