Genetic Genealogy Testing Anxiety

Why you shouldn’t be afraid to use direct-to-consumer genetic testing

Heather Monroe
Nov 4 · 8 min read
DNA Double Helix by Jerome Walker, Public Domain Image, Wikimedia Commons

Human beings are 99.9% genetically identical — from a newborn baby in the Congo basin to a middle-aged Wall Street executive in the United States. The small percentage of DNA that is different can say a whole lot about us as individuals and families.

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Welcome readers! Heather Monroe is a genealogist and writer who resides in California with her partner and their nine children. •True Crime• History• Memoir•

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