{"id":9394,"date":"2018-12-21T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9394"},"modified":"2018-12-21T00:18:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T06:18:39","slug":"is-the-dna-consistent-with-your-belief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/21\/is-the-dna-consistent-with-your-belief\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the DNA Consistent With Your Belief?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a genealogical DNA site uses your DNA to project a relationship based upon shared DNA, do you look to see how much DNA you actually share? If a &#8220;known cousin&#8221; does a test, do you see if the amount of DNA you share is typical for the relationship? It&#8217;s a good idea to do so for at least two reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It familiarizes you with the elements of the DNA cousin prediction process<\/li>\n<li>It allows you to see if the amount of shared DNA is typical (or not) for the biological relationship you think you have with that relative.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The data summaries from Blaine Bettinger\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thegeneticgenealogist.com\/2017\/08\/26\/august-2017-update-to-the-shared-cm-project\/\">Shared CM Project<\/a>\u201d indicate the typical ranges of shared DNA for specific relationships based upon submissions to his study. <a href=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8184\">We also analyzed some of my closest matches and compared them with the typical ranges from Bettinger&#8217;s study on my <em>Rootdig<\/em> blog<\/a>. Fortunately my shared DNA with my closest relatives was typical.<\/p>\n<p>Is yours?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a genealogical DNA site uses your DNA to project a relationship based upon shared DNA, do you look to see how much DNA you actually share? If a &#8220;known cousin&#8221; does a test, do you see if the amount of DNA you share is typical for the relationship? It&#8217;s a good idea to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}