If you are like most people, during the course of your life you have rarely, if ever, thought about your genes. Maybe you found some third cousins or suspicious half-brothers using a genetic genealogy service, or maybe you did genetic testing during pregnancy that told you the sex of your
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[Note: This is a modified version of a blog post I initially wrote in 2016. I'm moving this to my own domain so that I can easily find/link to it.] Anyone who has used commercial genetic testing products like those offered by 23andMe and AncestryDNA is familiar
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[Note: I wrote this post on the now-defunct Genomes Unzipped blog in 2011. I'm moving this to my own domain so that I can easily find/link to it.] The recent announcement of a new journal sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society, and