The lost family : how DNA testing is upending who we are /
You swab your cheek or spit in a vial, then send it away to a lab somewhere. Weeks later you get a report that might tell you where your ancestors came from or if you carry certain genetic risks. Or the report could reveal long-buried family secrets and upend your entire sense of identity. Soon a la...
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New York :
Abrams Press,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- Alice is not Alice
- Crude beginnings
- Somebody ought to start a business
- Your truth or mine?
- Non-paternity events
- Alice and the double helix
- Eureka in the chromosome
- Search angels
- 27 percent Asia central
- What to claim
- The mystery of Jim Collins
- The simplest explanation
- The American family
- Your genes are not yours alone
- Late night
- Alice redux
- Where we're going.