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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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DNA Family Secrets: Series 2: Episode 3

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Mel, Fi and Bahaa test their DNA to answer life-changing questions in their genes.

Mel wants to know her sperm donor father’s identity, while Fi wonders if she might have passed down a 'murder gene' to her kids. Bahaa worries he will get cancer like his brother.

Forty-six-year-old Mel only found out as a teenager that she was conceived using a sperm donor. Now she wants to see if she can find her biological father’s identity by decoding her DNA - and discovers far more than she ever expected.   
  
Fi always knew she was adopted. What she didn't know until later in life was that her father murdered her birth mother. Fi wants to know if it is possible to inherit a 'murder gene'. 
  
Bahaa escaped the war in Syria but now wants to know if he carries a potentially deadly mutation in his DNA.

DNA Family Secrets: Series 2

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Stacey Dooley helps people unlock mysteries hidden in their DNA.



Stacey Dooley helps people unlock mysteries hidden in their DNA – from discovering lost ancestry and tracking down missing relatives to detecting diseases before it’s too late.

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