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From: Paul Wright <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] DNA matching of cousins
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 17:16:20 -0600
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This band width only exist for CeCe's non-representative sample.


On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Dwight Holmes <>wrote:

> Thanks, CeCe. And so -- just to be clear -- there's a very vivid grey area
> of between 8.37% and 8.55% and a wider grey area of to-be-determined
> breadth on either side of that range, where the DNA won't tell us which
> flavor of 1st cousin it is.
>
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:09 PM, CeCe Moore <> wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm back at my computer now, so I pulled up my first cousin comparisons.
> I
> > have 15 full first cousin comparisons. The highest percentage shared is
> > 14.97% and the lowest is 8.37%. The average is just under 12%. I have 20
> > first cousin once removed comparisons. The highest is 8.55% and the
> lowest
> > is 3.12%. The average is just under 6%.
> > CeCe
> >
> > www.yourgeneticgenealogist.com
> > www.studiointv.com
> > (SNIP)
> >
> > > When compared to me (male), my two female 1st cousins show 12.2% and
> > 6.09%
> > >
> > > When compared to my sister they show 12.6% and 9.77%
> > >
> >
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