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Family Tree DNA, the Glossary

FamilyTreeDNA is a division of Gene by Gene, a commercial genetic testing company based in Houston, Texas.^[1]

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Affymetrix

Affymetrix is now Applied Biosystems, a brand of DNA microarray products sold by Thermo Fisher Scientific that originated with an American biotechnology research and development and manufacturing company of the same name.

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Ancient DNA

Ancient DNA (aDNA) is DNA isolated from ancient sources (typically specimens, but also environmental DNA).

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Applied Biosystems

Applied Biosystems is one of various brands under the Life Technologies brand of Thermo Fisher Scientific corporation.

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Autosome

An autosome is any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome.

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Bennett Greenspan

Bennett C. Greenspan (born 1952) is an American businessman.

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California Institution for Men

California Institution for Men (CIM) is a male-only state prison located in the city of Chino, San Bernardino County, California.

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Castro Valley, California

Castro Valley is a census-designated place (CDP) in Alameda County, California, United States.

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Cherry Hills Village, Colorado

The City of Cherry Hills Village is a home rule municipality located in Arapahoe County, Colorado, United States.

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Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments

The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) of 1988 are United States federal regulatory standards that apply to all clinical laboratory testing performed on humans in the United States, except clinical trials and basic research.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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College of American Pathologists

The College of American Pathologists (CAP) is a member-based physician organization founded in 1946 comprising approximately 18,000 board-certified pathologists.

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Deckers, Colorado

Deckers is an unincorporated community along the South Platte River in Douglas County, Colorado, United States.

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DeCODE genetics

deCODE genetics (Íslensk erfðagreining) is a biopharmaceutical company based in Reykjavík, Iceland.

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DNA Doe Project

DNA Doe Project (also DNA Doe Project, Inc. or DDP) is an American nonprofit volunteer organization formed to identify unidentified deceased persons (commonly known as John Doe or Jane Doe) using forensic genealogy.

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DNA microarray

A DNA microarray (also commonly known as DNA chip or biochip) is a collection of microscopic DNA spots attached to a solid surface.

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DNA sequencing

DNA sequencing is the process of determining the nucleic acid sequence – the order of nucleotides in DNA.

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El Dorado Hills, California

El Dorado Hills (El Dorado, Spanish for "The Golden") is an unincorporated town and census-designated place in El Dorado County, California.

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GEDmatch

GEDmatch is an online service to compare autosomal DNA data files from different testing companies. Family Tree DNA and GEDmatch are American genealogy websites and genetic genealogy companies.

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Gene by Gene

Gene by Gene is a commercial genetic testing company based in Houston, Texas. Family Tree DNA and gene by Gene are 2000 establishments in Texas, Applied genetics, commercial laboratories, companies based in Houston, genetic genealogy companies and Laboratories in the United States.

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Genealogical DNA test

A genealogical DNA test is a DNA-based genetic test used in genetic genealogy that looks at specific locations of a person's genome in order to find or verify ancestral genealogical relationships, or (with lower reliability) to estimate the ethnic mixture of an individual.

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Genetic genealogy

Genetic genealogy is the use of genealogical DNA tests, i.e., DNA profiling and DNA testing, in combination with traditional genealogical methods, to infer genetic relationships between individuals.

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Genetic testing

Genetic testing, also known as DNA testing, is used to identify changes in DNA sequence or chromosome structure.

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GeneTree

GeneTree was a family history website focused on using DNA testing to trace ancestry. Family Tree DNA and GeneTree are American genealogy websites, Applied genetics and genetic genealogy companies.

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Genographic Project

The Genographic Project, launched on 13 April 2005 by the National Geographic Society and IBM, was a genetic anthropological study (sales discontinued on 31 May 2019) that aimed to map historical human migrations patterns by collecting and analyzing DNA samples. Family Tree DNA and Genographic Project are American genealogy websites and genetic genealogy projects.

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Goodyear, Arizona

Goodyear is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.

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Helix (genomics company)

Helix is an American population genomics company.

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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.

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Human mitochondrial genetics

Human mitochondrial genetics is the study of the genetics of human mitochondrial DNA (the DNA contained in human mitochondria).

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Human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup

In human genetics, a human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup is a haplogroup defined by mutations in the non-recombining portions of DNA from the male-specific Y chromosome (called Y-DNA).

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Hypervariable region

A hypervariable region (HVR) is a location within nuclear DNA or the D-loop of mitochondrial DNA in which base pairs of nucleotides repeat (in the case of nuclear DNA) or have substitutions (in the case of mitochondrial DNA).

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Illumina, Inc.

Illumina, Inc. is an American biotechnology company, headquartered in San Diego, California.

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International Society of Genetic Genealogy

The International Society of Genetic Genealogy (ISOGG) is an independent non-commercial nonprofit organization of genetic genealogists run by volunteers.

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Investigative genetic genealogy

Investigative genetic genealogy, also known as forensic genetic genealogy, is the emerging practice of utilizing genetic information from direct-to-consumer companies for identifying suspects or victims in criminal cases.

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Lake Forest, California

Lake Forest is a city in Orange County, California, United States.

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Larkin Charter Township, Michigan

Larkin Charter Township is a charter township of Midland County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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League City, Texas

League City is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, in Galveston County, within the metropolitan area.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Manchester, Connecticut

Manchester is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States.

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Microsatellite

A microsatellite is a tract of repetitive DNA in which certain DNA motifs (ranging in length from one to six or more base pairs) are repeated, typically 5–50 times.

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Minneapolis

Minneapolis, officially the City of Minneapolis, is a city in and the county seat of Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. With a population of 429,954, it is the state's most populous city as of the 2020 census. It occupies both banks of the Mississippi River and adjoins Saint Paul, the state capital of Minnesota.

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Mission Viejo, California

Mission Viejo (corruption of Misión Vieja; Old Mission) is a commuter city in the Saddleback Valley in Orange County, California, United States.

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Mitochondrial DNA

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA and mDNA) is the DNA located in the mitochondria organelles in a eukaryotic cell that converts chemical energy from food into adenosine triphosphate (ATP).

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Murder of Angie Dodge

The rape and murder of Angie Dodge occurred in Idaho Falls, Idaho on June 13, 1996.

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MyHeritage

MyHeritage is an online genealogy platform with web, mobile, and software products and services, introduced by the Israeli company MyHeritage in 2003. Family Tree DNA and MyHeritage are genetic genealogy companies.

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NBC News

NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC.

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Newport Beach, California

Newport Beach is a coastal city of about 85,000 in southern Orange County, California, United States.

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Nutritional genomics

Nutritional genomics, also known as nutrigenomics, is a science studying the relationship between human genome, human nutrition and health.

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Orlando, Florida

Orlando is a city in and the county seat of Orange County, Florida, United States.

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Pharmacogenomics

Pharmacogenomics, often abbreviated "PGx," is the study of the role of the genome in drug response.

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Phylogenetic tree

A phylogenetic tree, phylogeny or evolutionary tree is a graphical representation which shows the evolutionary history between a set of species or taxa during a specific time.

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Polymerase chain reaction

The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a method widely used to make millions to billions of copies of a specific DNA sample rapidly, allowing scientists to amplify a very small sample of DNA (or a part of it) sufficiently to enable detailed study.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region.

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Raleigh, North Carolina

Raleigh is the capital city of the U.S. state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County.

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Richland Correctional Institution

The Richland Correctional Institution (RiCI) is a state prison for men located in Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio, owned and operated by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.

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Riverside County, California

Riverside County is a county located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of California.

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Salida, California

Salida (Spanish for "Exit") is a census-designated place (CDP) in Stanislaus County, California, in the United States.

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San Diego County, California

San Diego County, officially the County of San Diego (Condado de San Diego), is a county in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of California.

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Sanger sequencing

Sanger sequencing is a method of DNA sequencing that involves electrophoresis and is based on the random incorporation of chain-terminating dideoxynucleotides by DNA polymerase during in vitro DNA replication.

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Single-nucleotide polymorphism

In genetics and bioinformatics, a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP; plural SNPs) is a germline substitution of a single nucleotide at a specific position in the genome.

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Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation

The Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation (SMGF) was an independent DNA and genealogical research institution with the goal of demonstrating how the peoples of the world are related.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Texas Killing Fields

The Texas Killing Fields is a title used to roughly denote the area surrounding the Interstate Highway 45 corridor southeast of Houston, where since the early 1970s, more than 30 bodies have been found, and specifically to a 25-acre patch of land in League City, Texas where four women were found between 1983 and 1991.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Tree_DNA

Also known as FT-DNA, FTDNA, FamilyTree DNA, FamilyTreeDNA.

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Family Tree DNA, the Glossary

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American genealogy websites

Commercial laboratories

Genetic genealogy companies

Genetic genealogy projects

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