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Full or Half Siblings?
Many people are receiving unexpected sibling matches. Everyday on social media, “surprises” are being reported so often that they are no longer surprising – unless of course you’re the people...
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How Accurate Are Online DNA Tests?
The age of consumer genomics has arrived. Nowadays you can send a vial of your spit in the mail and pay to see how your unique genetic code relates to...
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How DNA testing works
Want to find out more about yourself, your family or even your pet? There’s a DNA test for that. Spit in a tube. Let your dog chew a swab. Or...
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DNA-Family History Activity For Kids
For each person you will need: A printed family tree chart Eight circles with a patterned print Four circles of a solid colour A - let’s say Red, but it...
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The Paternity Reveal
For most of history, one essential, immutable difference between men and women was that men could hide the fact that they had created a child and women could not. Pregnancy...
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How a DNA Testing Kit Revealed a Family Secret Hidden for 54 Years
One evening in the winter of 2016, my husband mentioned that he was sending away for one of those commercial DNA-testing kits. He asked if I wanted him to order...
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DNA from Postage Stamps or Hair Samples? Yeeesssss…..
DNA profiles can now sometimes be extracted from a licked stamp, used razor or hair with the root attached (not just cut hair) and even other items. These kinds of...
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Breaking Down a Maxxam Forensic Report
A forensic report is the formal release of results for all the testing that has been performed on the items that were submitted in a case. If a case is...
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UNDERSTANDING FORENSIC DNA AND STATISTICS
While the DNAlab, a division of Maxxam Analytics International Corporation, is the leading paternity/immigration DNA testing facility in Canada, it is also home to the premiere Forensic DNA testing facility...
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