Is there a separate "area," on NR for posting dna test results?
Pat Silva Corbera
Hello Edward,
The books on DNA testing are outdated and don't do proper comparisons or
explanations. DNA testing is a new field and advances are happening too
rapidly. Learning is done through websites and blogs.
Ancestry.com and Family Finder do autosomal testing. Autosomal testing
looks at the DNA that you inherited from all of your ancestral lines. You
don't inherit autosomal DNA from all of your ancestors but you do inherit
autosomal DNA from all of your ancestors. It can be confusing and hard to
explain.The following site has charts that can somewhat explain what you
are wanting to know http://www.dnainheritance.kahikatea.net/autosomal.html
Family Finder is much better than Ancestry.com because it allows you to see
which chromosome you coincide with your matches. This allows for
triangulation in order to pinpoint which ancestors passed down that segment
of autosomal DNA. Family Finder also tells you how much autosomal DNA you
have in common. Anything less than 5.5 is called IBS
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I just noticed an error in my previous post. I was trying to write it all
too fast. The correction is "You don't inherit autosomal DNA from all of
your ancestors but you do inherit autosomal DNA segments from ancestors
that existed through any of your ancestral lines." I hope that makes more
sense especially with the content of the rest of the post.
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