Category Archives: Analyze Your Own SNPs

Identity by State SNP Analysis: Find Relatives, Test Paternity, and Determine Allele Sharing

October 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Analyze Your Own SNPs, Bioinformatics, Consumer Genetics

Identity by State SNP Analysis can be used to find relatives, test paternity, examine inbreeding, and look at recombinations between siblings.

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Use Family SNP Data to Phase Your Own Genome

September 30th, 2009 | Posted in Analyze Your Own SNPs, Bioinformatics, Consumer Genetics

With family trio SNP data (father, mother, child), it is possible to determine the haplotypes for the child. A step-by-step guide along with a program to execute this task is presented.

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Phasing: Determining Which SNPs are Inherited Together

September 8th, 2009 | Posted in Analyze Your Own SNPs, Bioinformatics

Biallelic DNA microarray data SNPs, can be made much more useful if it haplotype information is also available. However, the process of phasing biallelic data is not so simple.

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The 5 Worst Things to Learn from a DNA Test

December 24th, 2008 | Posted in Analyze Your Own SNPs

While all the hype about getting your genome read is centered on discovering your geographical origins, learning which parent you got your personality from, and becoming aware of your various predispositions, there could be some negative consequences from getting your genome sequenced. A professor at Princeton University recently asked me if I was mentally prepared [...]

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My Personal Genetics: 23andMe and Me

December 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Analyze Your Own SNPs

So it’s official, I’m waiting for the Spit Kit to arrive. After some consideration, a group of us decided that 23andMe would be the best service to use to get our genes read (I’m careful not to use the words sequenced so as not to mislead people). I did it in a group of six [...]

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