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Determining the Accuracy of DNA Tests - Blog entry by lkessler - 10 Apr 2020
... extracts each contain about 2 million SNPs that are tested by the five major consumer DNA testing companies: Ancestry DNA, 23andMe, Family Tree DNA, MyHeritage DNA and Living DNA. Almost two years ago, I posted: Comparing Raw
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New Version of WGS Extract - Blog entry by lkessler - 6 Apr 2020
... SNPs in 23andMe format that you can upload to sites like GEDmatch, Family Tree DNA, MyHeritage DNA, or Living DNA. The mastermind behind this program, who prefers to remain anonymous, last month made a new version available.You can get it here: https://wgsextract.github.io/ The program last ...
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25 Years of Delphi - Blog entry by lkessler - 13 Feb 2020
... for me. (2008) A program to analyze 100 GB raw data files from whole genome DNA tests. (2019) One thing I never have done is resurrected my chess program. For a while I considered it, but I knew it would be a lot of work and I didn’t want to take my time away from my genealogy software. In the past couple of years, deep learning and Alpha Zero has made all ...
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So Much Fun! - Blog entry by lkessler - 25 Jan 2020
The Family History Fanatics’ @FHFanatics online Winter DNA eConference has just finished and it was so much fun. Andy and Devon sure know how to put un a good show. This was the first time I’ve presented at an online conference. I was able to do this comfortably from my office at home and my family was really good and went out of ...
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Double Match Triangulator, Version 3.1.2 - Blog entry by lkessler - 21 Jan 2020
... about Double Matching and Triangulation Groups at the Family History Fanatics Winter DNA eConference this Saturday. I’ll be presenting my material in a very visual style taking you through some of the challenges I have with my own genealogy and DNA matches. I’ll be introducing some concepts that I don’t think have been discussed ...
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DNA eConference on Saturday, January 25 - Blog entry by lkessler - 17 Jan 2020
... up in a week’s time. I’ll be one of the speakers on what will be a great day of DNA talks. I have given many talks at conferences, but this will be my first virtual talk from the comfort of my office at home. I just submitted my Syllabus today and will be spending the next few days reviewing my presentation and tweaking my slides. I’ll be talking about Double ...
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Aligning My Genome - Blog entry by lkessler - 4 Jan 2020
... 38, or hg 38). But I’m doing this to compare my results to my raw data from other DNA testing companies. Those are all June 2013 GRCh37.p13 (aka Build 37, or hg 19). So I’m going to use Build 37. The two reference genome files are each about 800 MB in size. They are both compressed, and after unzipping, they are both about 3 GB. The files are in FASTA format. They ...
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Using MyHeritage to get Triangulation Groups - Blog entry by lkessler - 13 Dec 2019
... difficult time with my own matches at MyHeritage. The reason is that out of my 12,142 DNA Matches that I have there, I only have my uncle and one other person that I know how I’m related or who is our MRCA (Most Recent Common Ancestor). At MyHeritage, my Uncle matches me on 52 segments that total 1994.1 cM. My next highest match is someone sharing 9 segments with me ...
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GEDmatch - Are You In or Out? - Blog entry by lkessler - 10 Dec 2019
... For some of the reporting on this, see the following news posts: A Controversial DNA Database Used to Solve Crimes Has Gone Commercial by Ed Cara on Gizmodo DNA site GEDmatch sold to firm helping US police solve crime by Adam Vaughan on NewScientist A DNA Firm That Caters to Police Just ...
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Aligning My Genome - Blog comment by sjcoker - 16 Feb 2020