this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2025
358 points (98.6% liked)
Technology
67422 readers
5376 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Exactly half of your nuclear DNA is from your mom and half is from your dad. It's the same for them with their parents. It goes on and on like that. There's a really interesting technique called The Leeds Method that allows you to cluster your DNA matches and it basically groups your DNA matches into four main groups, one for each of your grandparents. So you can actually quite clearly, with a bit of family knowledge or research, see more or less how you're related to a DNA match by comparing who your common matches are.
It's hard to explain, but you can learn a lot about DNA matches who aren't your immediate family.