What ethnicity am I? Please help

[rothaer]

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I would say that there are no better close relationships than parent-child. So I can't imagine that they would discard a parent-child relationship when they have it at their disposal, to be used for phasing. Nowhere in the paper does it say parents are excluded in the process, although siblings in fact are, because they share dna with both sides of the family and can't be used. Still, it would not totally shock me if parents are not utilized, but goodness that really would be asinine if they're not.

True!

[Mr.G]

Yes, please.

And intervals, yes, SideView phases by matching segments with matches and then by overlaping such segments they put it together as hailing from one parent. All this is done without a tested parent.

Ahh, so what I mean by intervals is a speculation on my part that they will theoretically re-phase everybody in the database periodically (because many more customers are being continuously added) and the completeness and quality of the phasing should theoretically get better for all. This kind of wide-scale re-phase could occur at intervals of 6 months or 12 months, etc.

In a case like yours, where your genome was originally phased in the absence of your mother, at the next re-phase, and now with the inclusion of your mother (if they in fact utilize parents), your result could possibly be improved.

[rothaer]

Ahh, so what I mean by intervals is a speculation on my part that they will theoretically re-phase everybody in the database periodically (because many more customers are being continuously added) and the completeness and quality of the phasing should theoretically get better for all. This kind of wide-scale re-phase could occur at intervals of 6 months or 12 months, etc.

In a case like yours, where your genome was originally phased in the absence of your mother, at the next re-phase, and now with the inclusion of your mother (if they in fact utilize parents), your result could possibly be improved.

Okay, now I got what you meant. And indeed they can hardly re-phase every day...