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A Puerto Rican Look at: Genetic Communities

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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

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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

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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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