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Over 25 million people have taken a home DNA test in the past decade, tracing the roots of their family tree to see what they have in common with the ancestors.

Yeah, we’re joined now by Geneticist Turi King, who is an expert on the show DNA Family Secrets. It is lovely to see you Dr. King.

Lovely to see you.

Tomorrow the next episode of DNA Family Secrets is on. It's the second series, I mean, tell us how did you get involved in it all.

Well so my PhD was actually on the link between surnames and DNA. So, the question was, is everybody with the same surname, are they all related and you can test that through DNA, so it's genetic genealogy. So, I was doing this over two decades ago and I got this phone call, would you like to be involved in this television series? Like oh my goodness, yes, I would love to, I’ve been doing this for decades. It's absolutely fantastic, so yeah, I get to be part of it.

There are some incredible moments on the show and just to give you an idea, just tomorrow, night there's a moment where you help someone find their biological father, have a look at this.
We know that they had three sons, Alan, Gerald, and Richard. So, we know Alan did not do any sperm donation. We know that from the DNA analysis that Richard is your uncle, so that leads us to Lilly and Harry's middle son Gerald Ridyard strongly believe he is your biological father.

Really, oh my goodness.

It's so emotional and it’s fascinating, Mel there, her father was actually a sperm donor and then you work it out, and then she gets the news like she did, it's just remarkable, isn't it?
There's a big team on this thing, and I can tell you, it's incredibly emotional. It's so incredibly emotional just to film, they're in tears, we're often in tears, because its often people coming to us with really kind of, life-changing questions, something about who they are. And you can see when I'm talking to Mel there, it's really emotional and you can see that her whole kind of, sense of who she is, is shifting.

Changes in front of your eyes.

I mean it must be interesting because, we've heard as well, that the law might be changing, that sperm and egg donors, well they obviously wanted to be anonymous, but this could change, because secrets are coming out like this.

Absolutely, I mean it's something which, with Mel's case, we were actually really lucky, it depends on who's on the databases. With Mel's case her cousin was on there and her dad's cousin was on there, and that allowed us to kind of triangulate these trees and she's descended from this family, must be one of these three brothers.

And it's so easy to find people these days. So, this idea of people having donated sperm and if you donated sperm prior to 2005, it was on the idea that you would be anonymous, that's not happening anymore, you can be found.

Interesting, yeah.

And it can have real impacts on people's lives because, I mean, I've had people contact me saying, I donated sperm, I haven't told my family and I've been found. And the impact on people's lives is massive, not just for those who are donor conceived, but the donors.

DNA is fascinating, the show's absolutely brilliant, we'll see you and Stacey Dooley it's tomorrow night, DNA Family Secrets 9pm and of course you can see it on iPlayer as well. Thank you so much for coming to see us today.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.


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