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... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Lower limits of individual segment matches at each company are: Family Tree DNA:  1 cM 23andMe:  5 cM  (on the X chromosome:  2 cM) MyHeritage DNA:  6.1 cM GEDmatch:  default 7 cM, but you can reduce that down as low as 1 cM If you’re using GEDmatch, you could download just Person A’s ...

... attracts thousands to her talks. Diahan Southard gave her talk “Your Slice of the DNA Pie”, and I watched it on my computer at home. It was a presentation of the Virtual Genealogical Association, an organization formed in April 2018 to provide a forum for genealogists to connect online. Webinars such as Diahan’s are just one of their offerings. Membership is just ...

... father’s parents. MRCAs are always from the tester’s point of view.) Since DNA shared with my uncle can come from either of my paternal grandparents, and since DNA from my 1C1R can come from either of my maternal grandparents, their double matches and triangulations do not help in the determination of the grandparent. However, ...

... Match Triangulator, and some of the information it provides, at least for me. My own DNA match data is difficult to analyze. I come from a very endogamous population on all my sides that originates in Romania and Ukraine. The endogamy gives me many more matches than most people, but because my origins are from an area that have scarce records prior to 1850, I can only ...

... I humbly admit that I actually developed it so that I could analyze my own DNA to help me figure out how some of my DNA matches might be related. Of course, as I started working on my articles, first looking at my 23andMe matches, I found some problems in my new 3.0.1 version, and a few places I could make enhancements. If you ...

... social sites, maintaining GenSoftReviews, working on my family tree, deciphering my DNA results, going to conferences, watching online seminars, vacations, reading the paper each morning, watching TV, following tennis, football and hockey, eating breakfast, lunch and supper each day, cleaning the dishes, doing house errands, buying groceries, and still having time to ...