DNA testing

A Puerto Rican Look at: 23andme’s New African Groups

Recently, an email was sent out informing its members that there had been another update on 23andme. I was pleasantly surprised, especially since this had to do with genetic groups in Africa! I was excited to see if any of my own DNA (or that of my family) would be categorized into new African groups, […]

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A Puerto Rican Look at: Updated 23andme Results (2025)

Recently, at the end of September, 23andMe released a fairly big update to their genetic DNA results. The biggest changes seem to have come to the European section of the results, which have not been majorly updated for about ten years. So let’s take a look, focusing mostly on my European results!  New European Percentages

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A Puerto Rican Look at: Genetic Communities

Now that I’m on summer vacation I hope I can get some more posts out — especially since I’ll be traveling and doing some research as well! I want to dedicate this post to the Genetic Communities aspect of AncestryDNA that was recently released. This new feature of AncestryDNA is currently listed as “beta” meaning

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DNA Tribes Update

With the recent DNA Tribes SNP analysis/ update special (which is currently still going on), I decided to get my mother’s and my analysis updated to included the newer populations such as: Andalusia Spain. Germany and Austria, Greek Mixed, Italy General, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia General, Serbia and Croatia, Southern Italy and Sicily, Assyria and Tibet. The main ones for me of importance were the European populations

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Narrowing Down Possibilites

I’ve been meaning to post about this a while ago and with some recent changes to the 23andme relative finder, I’ve decided to finally write this post! By testing with 23andme and testing several family members, I am able to narrow down where certain cousins are related to me in my family. Recently I was

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