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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 3: Episode 3

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Foundling Steph is looking for her family, Mark for his origins, and Viv for a sister.

Steph is a foundling looking for her biological family, while Mark wants to know if he really is Egyptian. Viv is searching for the sister who was taken from her mother in Ireland.

Stephanie, 37, was left as a newborn wrapped in a plastic bag. Passers-by discovered her, and she knows nothing about where she comes from. Now, Stephanie wants to trace her family and let her biological parents know that she's had a happy life.

Mark believed his birth father was Egyptian all his life but has recently started to question it, now wanting to know the truth of his ancestry. And 72-year-old Viv is searching for the sister who was taken away from her mother in an Irish mother-and-baby home.

DNA Family Secrets: Series 3

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Stacey Dooley helps people unlock mysteries hidden in their DNA.

Stacey Dooley helps people unlock life-changing secrets in their DNA; from revealing unknown siblings and missing relatives to discovering the truth about long held family secrets.

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