Ancestry has unveiled SideView™ technology, a ‘first-of-itskind scientific innovation’ that separates DNA into parental sides, giving AncestryDNA customers new insights into which side of the family they inherited their genetics from. Ancestry is the first company to be able to provide this type of genomic information without requiring a parent to be tested.
Phasing or understanding genetic inheritance without having genetic samples of an individual’s parents is a problem that scientists have been trying to solve for decades. The Sideview technology means that Ancestry can phase a customer’s entire genome into parental sides using the DNA they share with relatives in the AncestryDNA database – their DNA matches – to provide an even greater level of detail for genomic discoveries. Grouping of matches is the first critical step in phasing DNA using SideView technology.