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When we first wrote this article, it compared 23andMe and Ancestry. Since then, 23andMe has experienced a data breach, a subsequent lawsuit, board members' resignations and layoffs amidst financial ...

It seems everyone is checking their ancestry these days at sites like Ancestry.com and 23andMe.com. Everyday, long lost relatives are reunited at airports, after an ancestry test brought them together ...

Important uses for genealogy fall into two broad categories — ethnicity and relationships among individuals. Over the next ...

"I received a DNA kit for Christmas, found out that my first cousin is actually my half sister. My mom had an affair with the ...

On paper, genetic ancestry testing (also known as recreational genetics) sounds like a simple, fun, and exciting process, allowing interested individuals to learn more about their ethnic ancestry and ...

If someone had asked me at 18 to describe my immediate family, I would have answered without a second thought: Mum, Dad, ...

While the limitations of the genetic-ancestry tests are complex, here we focus on a few key points: (1) the social construction of ethnic labels that are being mapped onto biology; (2) the limited ...