ArticleAmerican journal of biological anthropology2023
Addressing the feasibility of people of African descent finding living African relatives using direct-to-consumer genetic testing.
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- CORRECTING MODEL MISSPECIFICATION IN RELATIONSHIP ESTIMATES.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Supporting the use of genetic genealogy in restoring family narratives following the transatlantic slave trade.American anthropologist · 2024Article
- Ethical considerations when co-analyzing ancient DNA and data from private genetic databases.American journal of human genetics · 2023Review
- Racial-Genomic Interest Convergence and the Geneticization of Black Families.Journal of family communicationArticle
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People of African descent use direct-to-consumer genomics services such as 23andMe and AncestryDNA for various family histories and health reasons, including identifying and interacting with the previously unknown living African genetic relatives. In this commentary, I argue that it is reasonable to consider that cousin pairs consisting of an African person and a descendant of an African person enslaved in the Americans during the Transatlantic Slave Trade (i.e., a person of African descent) have genealogical ancestors recent enough to be detected using autosomal DNA testing where the pair has shared ancestors in the range of 20-6 generations ago from the present.
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