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Admixture Testing: How Can Your DNA Provide Insights Into Your Ancestry?

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Personal Genetics Education Project (pgEd.org)
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DNA ancestry testing comes in several varieties, which provide different ways for people to explore their ancestry, and can be a rewarding and complicated endeavor. This lesson asks students to explore how admixture testing (or biogeographical ancestry analysis) works to provide an analysis of a person's DNA to estimate from where their biological ancestors might be from.

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DNA ancestry testing
Admixture testing