23andMe DNA Relatives feature estimates the relationship between two individuals who share DNA. We do this by comparing your autosomal DNA (chromosomes 1-22) and X chromosome(s) with other 23andMe members who are participating in the DNA Relatives feature.
Adopted Separately in China, Cousins Wind Up Almost Next Door
Adopted from the same small town in China, two cousins find each other using 23andMe and discover they're living only a few miles apart in Pennsylvania.
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Seoul Sisters and Brothers
When they met for the first time, Tamara Miller and Leslie Wheeler were struck by their similarities. They both are Korean adoptees, and both share a cheerful disposition and closets...
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Families Come Together For Their First Mother’s Day
Last week, a few 23andMe customers came together for a special brunch and a chance to celebrate their first Mother’s Day with the birth moms they discovered, with the help...
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23andMe collaborates with Legacy Tree Genealogists to offer customers more tools in discovering their family history
Insights gleaned from your DNA can be transformational, but 23andMe results are most powerful when combined with other kinds of information, such as family histories, or observable traits, or sometimes...
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Mindy and Cindy’s 23andMe Story
Using 23andMe Mindy and Cindy discovered that they are sisters and uncovered a twist to their story that only deepens their connections.
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Guillaume’s Search
Orphaned during the Vietnam war and raised in France, Guillaume uses 23andMe to help him find family he thought had disappeared in the fog of war.
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The Irish Connection
Caroline Wallis, 23andMe Content Writer, Ancestry Product Team A photo of Mike in front of Bunratty Castle in County Clare, near the Shannon Airport. Messaging a distant cousin through 23andMe’s...
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23andMe Adds 1000+ More Regions and 30+ New Reports for Our Most Refined View of Ancestry To-Date
When it comes to calculating 23andMe customers’ Ancestry Composition results, details are invariably what matter most: more specificity, more interactivity, more opportunities to draw meaning about how we are all...
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23andMe Help Connect Siblings for A Reunion Decades in the Making
Brian, an adoptee raised in California, used 23andMe to find first his brother JJ and then two more brothers and two sisters. They all met this year in Ohio for a reunion.
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23andMe Helps You Write The Story of Your DNA
23andMe is offering a way for its customers to create a beautifully printed book called "The Story of Your DNA," that contains all their ancestry results, plus details of what their DNA says about their roots across the globe,
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