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DNA tests promise to detail customers' ancestry — but in some cases, what the companies report is far more surprising than expected.

Surprise!

Genetics

"I didn't even think my mom had ever met a Jewish person before."

DNA Tests Have a Nasty Side Effect: Discovering Your Parents' Secrets

The private equity firm Blackstone just purchased Ancestry as well as its massive databse of customers' genetic information.

Personal Data

Ancestry — and its trove of genetic data — just changed hands.

A Private Equity Firm Just Bought the Largest Consumer DNA Database

23andMe and other DNA ancestry companies can revise people's results as they gather more data and update their database about genetic information.

Second Draft

It turns out 23andMe results are written in pencil.

23andMe Is Updating Ancestry Results Without Telling Users

Startups that sequence your DNA have a new target market, according to a new story in The Atlantic: your long-dead ancestors.

Family Plot

"When they were licking those stamps... they were sealing their precious DNA for you forever."

DNA Ancestry Startups Have a New Target Market: The Long-Dead

Just two percent of adults would have to upload their DNA to genealogy sites before you could use a DNA sample to find a relative of virtually anyone.

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