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With 23 pairs of chromosomes we have 46 dominoes each (ignoring recombination.) This changes the odds of inheriting none of your mother's Scottish dominoes from
by laurencerowe 7y ago
With 23 pairs of chromosomes we have 46 dominoes each (ignoring recombination.) This changes the odds of inheriting none of your mother's Scottish dominoes from 1 in a million (2^20) to 1 in 512 (2^9).
- irrational 7y agoRight, but unless you get your own results you have no idea how the dice rolled for you (how many other game metaphors can I use?).
- michaelt 7y agoWhat if I don't give a shit about being "20% scottish" and only care about relatives-I-didn't-know-I-had and genetically-heritable-illnesses and my parents' reports were clean?
- kaikai 7y agoHalf siblings are probably the most interesting “relatives-you-didn’t-know-you-had” you can find! They might show up at any time, and you wouldn’t know without having your own account.
- nordsieck 7y ago> This changes the odds of inheriting none of your mother's Scottish dominoes from 1 in a million (2^20) to 1 in 512 (2^9). That may be true for mom, but conservatively, there's between a 1-in-100 and 1-in-20 odds of inheriting none of your father's dominoes.
- e_y_ 7y agoIt's been a while since I've taken high school biology, but the odds should be the same as the mother. Scottish-ness is not something that's limited to the X or Y chromosome. Mitochondrial DNA will only come from your mother, but I don't think we're talking about that here.
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- laurencerowe 7y agoWhat's the mechanism at play here? Each chromosome pair is one from the father and one from the mother.
- nordsieck 7y ago> What's the mechanism at play here? cheating