DNA Family Secrets

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Stacey Dooley helps people find answers to life-changing questions using the power of DNA.

Stacey Dooley helps people find answers to life-changing questions through the power of a DNA test.

Over 26 million of us have taken a DNA test in the past decade. This growing popularity of genetic testing has created worldwide databases that allow us to ask questions previously impossible to answer about our families, ancestry and health.

Stacey Dooley is meeting people across the UK who want to unlock mysteries hidden within their genetic code. Working with one of the UK’s leading geneticists, Professor Turi King, as well as genealogists, social workers and doctors, she uses the very latest DNA technology to reveal lost heritage, track down missing relatives and detect debilitating diseases before it is too late.

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Janine’s origins have always been a mystery, and Duri fears she may get terminal cancer.

Stacey Dooley helps answer life-changing questions through the power of DNA. Janine’s origins have always been a mystery, and Duri fears she may get terminal cancer like her mother.

Janine has lived her entire life never knowing the identity or ethnicity of her birth father. Her white and British mum kept her true parentage a secret, which made life difficult while growing up on Braunstone Estate in Leicester with darker skin. Janine finally wants to discover the origins of her DNA so she can put the mystery to rest and give her children some answers.

Margaret was adopted in Southport when she was only six months old. Until now, she never felt brave enough to search for information about her ancestry, in particular what happened to her birth mother. She’s wondering if DNA can finally reveal the truth, and she’s shocked by the results.

31-year-old Duri was devastated when her mother died of ovarian cancer eight years ago. But even worse was the discovery that the disease might be in her DNA, and that she could carry a potentially fatal genetic mutation. Hoping to someday be a mum, Duri wants to test her DNA to see if she is likely to contract the fatal disease.

DNA Family Secrets: Series 1

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