29 January 2014

How much DNA do you share with your father's aunt's great-uncle's brother?

Its the type of question that now sends me to Wolfram Alpha. Go to www.wolframalpha.com/ and type in the query. The result is a diagram showing the relationship and a table including the information that the person may be a great great granduncle with a blood relationship fraction of 1/64 (1.5625%) or great great grandfather, 1/16 (6.25%).

I've written suggesting they add the average number of centimorgans to the table.

2 comments:

turner said...

What's a centimorgan?

Brenda

JDR said...

Check the definition at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centimorgan