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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DNA Family Secrets: Series 1: Episode 3

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A set of triplets want to learn their ethnicity, and gene therapy could help Leo's eyes.

Stacey Dooley helps answer life-changing questions through the power of DNA. A set of adopted triplets want to discover their ethnicity, and gene therapy could stop Leo going blind.

Triplets Peter, David and Phillip were adopted as young boys and have only been able to guess where their father comes fro, guessing such places as Italy or South America. When Professor Turi King analyses their DNA and finally uncovers the truth, it changes everything they thought they knew about themselves.

Tink only found out she was conceived from a sperm donor when she was 17 years old and pregnant with her first child. Since then, her relationship with the man she always believed was her father has never been the same. Tink would now like to learn about the other half of her ancestry and if she has any half donor siblings. But with 45,000 donor-conceived people in the UK, she will only be able to find a half brother or sister if they are looking for her as well. 

Mitchell and Manuela fear their three-year-old son Leo is slowly going blind, and they are desperate to find a cure. If specialists discover Leo's sight loss is from a genetic mutation, he could be eligible for sight-saving gene therapy. If not, there is little that doctors can do, and he is likely to be completely blind by the time he is a teenager. The only way Mitchell and Manuela can find out is through a DNA test. But Leo's results are far from simple.

DNA Family Secrets: Series 1

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