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A New Notation for DNA Relationships?? - Blog comment by lkessler - 20 Dec 2015
... I did look for, but was unable to find any statistics about the random nature of how DNA combines. If I had some theoretical study that estimated the combinatorial probabilities, then I might be willing to include ranges using that.
But I don't think its right to use ranges taken from samples like the ISOGG Autosomal DNA statistics. ...
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A New Notation for DNA Relationships?? - Blog comment by robhoare - 20 Dec 2015
... to see that YY(Y)YYYY (all male descendants both sides from a male MRCA) will share Y-dna, less clear with YY(XY)YYYY.
But since in most cases (other than second marriages etc) there will be two MRCA's, it would probably be best to allow (XY) to avoid the majority of records having two paths.
"every combination of letters gives exactly one set of
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A New Notation for DNA Relationships?? - Blog comment by lkessler - 20 Dec 2015
... between two people, so I wasn't thinking of determining the relationship from the DNA.
However, the wonderful byproduct is that this notation could now make that possible. With the addition of the parenthesis refinement, every combination of letters gives exactly one set of DNA percentages. A list of these up to, say, 5 generations ...
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A New Notation for DNA Relationships?? - Blog comment by acproctor - 20 Dec 2015
... but there's a part of the proposal that I don't quite understand. Imagine that a DNA test shows that two people have some genetic connection. Obviously, it doesn't imply that either one is descended from the other, but probably indicates that they have a common ancestor somewhere further back. How do you deal with that given that (a) you don't know how far back, and ...
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Behold Version 1.1 - Blog comment by lkessler - 1 Jul 2015
... that normally don't include dates, e.g. height, eye color, number of children, DNA info, etc. So there might be quite a bit of information without dates, and it isn't necessarily because the date is missing.
But it still seems t me that it is the event that is most important and should be first, not the age. I think I want to know that it is a Birth, or a Death of ...
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Is GEDCOM Good For Sources? - Blog comment by arnold - 21 May 2015
... so-and-so's recollections on her 90th birthday as retold by her niece's daughter Edna at the last family reunion in 1998 at someplace'
Now, I find myself having to go back and track down all of the names in my 'tree' and try to recall and cross-check where the data came from and every so often call down the pox on those who should have known better. :-)
and let me ...
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A New Notation for DNA Relationships?? - Blog comment by lkessler - 21 Dec 2015