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Genetic Affairs Clustering at 23andMe - Blog entry by lkessler - 20 Mar 2019
Today Evert-Jan Blom, author of Genetic Affairs and the new clustering algorithm implemented by MyHeritage DNA, posted on the Genetic Genealogy Tips & Techniques group on Facebook. He announced some improvements to his AutoCluster analysis on Genetic Affairs for 23andMe matches. He posted: A well known ...
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Small Segment Matches - Blog entry by lkessler - 19 Mar 2019
Blaine Bettinger posted a poll on his Genetic Genealogy Tips and Techniques Facebook group about 7 hours ago. It is a closed group, but if you are a member you can see the poll here. In four hours, the poll got almost 800 responses and over 350 comments. Blaine asked people to go to GEDmatch Genesis and ...
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Inferred Segment Matches - Blog entry by lkessler - 7 Mar 2019
When we match our DNA to other people to find common ancestors, we are comparing segments of DNA that match the other people. That’s only logical, isn’t it. Well, interestingly enough, there’s a technique that will help you determine which ancestors your DNA comes from by using non-matches. Actually, you ...
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MyHeritage New AutoClustering Feature is now Live - Blog entry by lkessler - 1 Mar 2019
Another new feature announced during #RootsTech is the MyHeritage DNA integration of Evert-Jan Blom’s AutoClustering method. MyHeritage has become the first major DNA service to offer clustering. MyHeritage’s blog post Introducing AutoClusters for DNA Matches was posted yesterday and describes their new ...
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DNA meets Trees at AncestryDNA and MyHeritage DNA - Blog entry by lkessler - 27 Feb 2019
Today’s the first day of #RootsTech. This is the day that many of the genealogy companies announce new features on their site. So it is not ironic at all that today, both AncestryDNA and MyHeritage DNA announced a new feature that matches up your tree with the trees of your DNA matches and shows you the ...
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My Whole Genome Sequencing. The VCF File - Blog entry by lkessler - 6 Feb 2019
I received my results from my Dante Labs Whole Genome test last week. I purchased the test last August when I was able to get it for $399 USD. There were two health reports that I requested that are written in ancient Latin as far as my understanding of them goes. Then there were the VCF files which I was more ...
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Genetic Clusters and DNAGedcom - Blog comment by lkessler - 1 Feb 2019
Interesting, Jim. Of course, when someone has mapped as much of their chromosomes as you have, you're a step up on most of us and can leverage that data with other tools. So it is good to know that you found clustering useful on top of everything else you've done.
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Genetic Clusters and DNAGedcom - Blog comment by lkessler - 23 Jan 2019
Thank you Jonathan for your comment, and for creating your Shared Clustering tool. See my next blog post Comparing Genetic Clusters that compares the specific results. I use the 8 people who I know "on paper" how I'm related to, to evaluate the assignment similarities and differences between yours and the ...
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Genetic Clusters and DNAGedcom - Blog comment by lkessler - 23 Jan 2019
I do recall, Leah, last summer I tried RootsFinder's their very innovative 3D visualization of triangulations. They even the ability to associate the triangulation "blobs" (if I may call them that) with an ancestor and color them. But that functionality is not possible for AncestryDNA where you do not have ...
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My Whole Genome Sequencing. The VCF File - Blog comment by lkessler - 12 Feb 2019