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QUIZ 4 QUESTIONS AND ANDSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
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QUIZ 4 QUESTIONS AND ANDSWERSWITH SOLUTIONS 2024
The reason that identifying genetic relatives using GEDmatch is more common for European Americans is
because: - ANSWER A significant number of individuals of European American ancestry have participated
in ancestry tests and uploaded their raw data to GEDmatch.
How can ancestry testing services, like 23andMe, determine the approximate timing of admixture
(ancestry timeline)? - ANSWER They count the number of ancestry informative markers from a specific
population that are in your genome.
T/F: Your mitochondrial ancestry can be different from your autosomal ancestry. - ANSWER True
T/F: You can anticipate that your ancestry results ill become more refined as the reference populations
grow for comparison. - ANSWER True
Who is Mitochondrial Eve? - ANSWER The representative woman in Africa who is the source of all
mitochondrial genomes today.
T/F: The ancestry results reported by commercial companies have some amount of error. - ANSWER True
T/F: GEDmatch allows law enforcement to upload DNA profiles from suspects to assist in solving criminal
cases. - ANSWER True
All Y chromosome ancestry can be traced back to an origin with a distant ancestor who lived in: -
ANSWER Africa
There is a significant bias in the populations that are used in genetics research. Most of the research has
been conducted on people of ? ancestry. - ANSWER European
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