Known as "autosomal" analysis, this test involves scanning a million points across each person's genome to look for matches in the patterns passed down to them incrementally from previous generations.

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The autosomal study, investigating DNA inherited from all an individual's ancestors, demonstrated that on average, more than one in seven (13%) ancestors of today's Black Britons of Caribbean descent would be of European origin.

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