Gephi

DNA Chutes and Ladders: Strategic Use of Ancestry’s Enhanced Shared Matches

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DNA Chutes and Ladders: Strategic Use of Ancestry’s Enhanced Shared Matches

If you’re of a certain age, you may remember Milton Bradley’s Chutes and Ladders game. Even if you don’t know it, its use as a metaphor to autosomal DNA research will not be lost on you. In this post, I demonstrate how to use Ancestry’s Enhanced Shared Matches to “ladder” back to an unknown ancestor. … Read more

Using Gephi Network Graphs to Analyze Unlinked Family Clusters

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Using Gephi Network Graphs to Analyze Unlinked Family Clusters

In the last post, I presented a strategy for expanding a genetic network of shared matches all within a DNA testing website. The strategy is called Viewed Match Switching. Now, I present a similar but more holistic strategy using Gephi network graphs. This process is more demanding of our mental and computational resources, but it … Read more