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I read your column “Do Most Whites Have Traces of African DNA, as I Do?” with interest. The questioner in that column was wondering whether the traces of African ancestry in her DNA test entered her ...

52.9. I’d never given much thought to this arrangement of numbers until a few months ago. Those digits represent a majority of my ancestral makeup. During a recent DNA examination, I discovered that ...

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For nearly 11 years, I've been the proud pet parent of an adorable pint-sized Shih-Tzu named Tito. And when I say pint-sized, I mean pint-sized, as he weighs in at a measly 7.5 pounds. (He's small but ...

At-home DNA tests have become hugely popular. Offering insights into how we all came to be, the tests give us context for our health and genetic make-up, trace our lineage, and even connect us with ...

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My father was put into the foster system when he was 4 years old, so he never knew much about his biological family. He and his brother were adopted a few years later, but they never learned the ...

While I like to stay active, I wouldn't consider myself naturally athletic. Throughout the years, I've tried plenty of sports: golf, soccer, volleyball, tennis, horseback riding — you name it. And ...

Thirty years ago I had an affair and gave birth to a daughter, Julie, and didn’t tell my husband, John, about it. Last year Julie took an ancestry DNA test and discovered she is not John’s biological ...