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https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/dna-ancestry-kits-twins-marketplace-1.4980976 https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/dna-ancestry-kits-twins-m... no, not really
by hprotagonist 7y ago
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/dna-ancestry-kits-twins-marketplace-1.4980976 https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/dna-ancestry-kits-twins-m...
no, not really.
Last spring, Marketplace host Charlsie Agro and her twin sister, Carly, bought home kits from AncestryDNA, MyHeritage, 23andMe, FamilyTreeDNA and Living DNA, and mailed samples of their DNA to each company for analysis.
Despite having virtually identical DNA, the twins did not receive matching results from any of the companies.
- dekhn 7y agoI read through the article and the argreement between the twins is about what you'd expect. Twins don't truly have identical genomes, and these are estimates, so there is going to be some variance around the estimated value. A few SNP differences can explain this.