Autosomal DNA
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This page is a gateway to finding more information and resources on Autosomal DNA. Some portal pages may contain "Recommended Reading" and/or "Getting Started" sections which contain useful links.
Introduction to Autosomal DNA
Autosomal DNA is a term used in genetic genealogy to describe DNA which is inherited from the autosomal chromosomes. An autosome is any of the numbered chromosomes, as opposed to the sex chromosomes. Humans have 22 pairs of autosomes and one pair of sex chromosomes (the X chromosome and the Y chromosome). Autosomes are numbered roughly in relation to their sizes. That is, Chromosome 1 has approximately 2,800 genes, while chromosome 22 has approximately 750 genes. There is no established abbreviation for autosomal DNA: atDNA (more common) and auDNA are used.
Autosomal DNA Recommended Reading
Introduction to autosomal DNA testing
- Autosomal DNA
- Autosomal DNA statistics
- Autosomal DNA testing comparison chart
- Admixture analyses
- Cousin statistics
- Identical by descent
- Endogamy
What to do with your autosomal DNA test results
- Autosomal DNA tools
- Raw DNA data tools
- Raw DNA data tools
- Chromosome mapping
- Phasing
- The phasing process
- Visual phasing
- Triangulation
Autosomal DNA projects
Autosomal DNA Tests
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This is a complete listing of all the Wiki pages of relevance to the subject of autosomal DNA:
General
- Admixture analyses
- Ancestry-informative markers
- Autosomal DNA
- Autosomal DNA match thresholds
- Autosomal DNA statistics
- Autosomal DNA testing comparison chart
- Autosomal SNP comparison chart
- Cousin
- Cousin statistics
Autosomal STRs
Autosomal DNA tests
Autosomal DNA Projects
What to do with your autosomal DNA results
- Autosomal DNA tools
- Raw DNA data tools
- Raw DNA data tools
- Chromosome mapping
- Phasing
- The phasing process
- Visual phasing
- Triangulation
Technical terms
- Allele
- Autozygosity
- Base
- Base pair
- Biogeographical ancestry
- Centimorgan
- Centromere
- Chromosome
- Chromosome browser
- Chromosome mapping
- Coefficient of relationship
- Deletion
- Discord
- Endogamy
- Fully identical region
- Gene
- Electropherogram
- Epigenome
- Genetic ancestry
- Genetic anthropology
- Genetic distance
- Genome
- Genotype
- Half-identical region
- Heterochromatin
- Heterozygosity
- Homozygosity
- Identical ancestors point
- Identical by descent
- Identical by state
- Insertion
- Locus
- Match
- Megabase
- Meiosis
- Mitosis
- Mutation
- Next generation sequencing
- OmniPop
- Pedigree collapse
- Phasing
- Phenotype
- Polygenic risk score
- Principal component analysis
- Recombination
- Single-nucleotide polymorphism
- Visual phasing