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Only two percent of the population needs to have done a DNA test to identify nearly everyone else, researchers found. Click here to read the entire article in the New York Times and thanks to member Doyle Phillips for this link.

A Dutch man has made the startling discovery through a FTDNA Y-DNA test that his dad was a 'super sperm donor' and he could have as many as 1,000 half-brothers and half-sisters around the world. Click here to read the whole story in The Sun.

"At a recent genetic-genealogy meeting I [Sarah Zhang] attended, an audience member asked how to convince people to upload their DNA results to more genealogy sites. “Tell them they’ll find they’re Native American and they’ll all go,” another...

It’s conventional wisdom that procreation between first cousins is unhealthy. But what are the actual genetic risks? Click here to find out at JSTOR Daily.

A key, as-yet-untold role in connecting DeAngelo to the crimes was played by Barbara Rae-Venter, who had kept quiet about her work to help solve the infamous cold case until this week. Hand-picked by Paul Holes — the retired Contra Costa District...