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Map of Kinship – An exciting new ancestry feature in deCODEme
The Map of Kinship can be used not only to learn about your relationship to people from the different continents, but also your relationship to populations within the continents.
From a genetic point of view we are all unique, but some individuals are more similar than others. Generally speaking, genetic differences reflect geography. People from the same geographic area tend to be more genetically similar than people from distant parts of the world. This means that the greater your genetic similarity is to a particular population, the more likely you have ancestors that belonged to that group in the past and relatives in the present.
The deCODEme team has recently implemented a new tool, called the Map of Kinship. This tool can be used to explore a person’s ancestry and genealogical relationship to more than 1000 individuals from 53 populations from all over the world.
