Article 5Y4V1 Ancestry will tell you which genetics came from which parent

Ancestry will tell you which genetics came from which parent

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Consumer genetics and genealogy company Ancestry announced a new feature, called SideView, that will give customers information about which bits of their DNA - and which parts of their ethnicity - were inherited from each parent. The tool can do that without having genetic information from the parents, which Ancestry says is a first in the industry.

Separating out which parts of someone's genome came from which parent has been a challenge for researchers, says Barry Starr, the director of scientific communications at Ancestry. It's a really big breakthrough for science in general," he told The Verge. That's really something that no one else has been able to do without having a parent tested as well." The feature will be automatically...

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