Duri wants to have her DNA analysed to find out. With there being genes that predispose people to ovarian cancer, could it be that she carries a potentially dangerous genetic mutation in her own DNA. Could she have other family out there who she's never met.ĭuri was in her early 20s when she lost her mother to ovarian cancer. In particular, she would really like to find out about her birth mother and what happened to her all those years ago. Janine wants to know if DNA can help her to find out anything about her father’s heritage.Īdopted in Southport when she was only six months old, Margaret has never felt brave enough to find out anything about her ancestry. Her white-British mum died taking the secret of who Janine’s biological father was to her grave. Leicester-born Janine, has lived her entire life never knowing the identity or ethnicity of her birth father. With a 50/50 chance that she has inherited the mutated form of the gene, Charlie is desperate to know whether she also has it, and, if so, does that mean that her and her partner’s son, Cian, will also develop to have Huntington’s disease. Richard hopes DNA testing will be able to solve this mystery and show if he has a half-brother, Brendon.Ĭharlie has recently found out that her father has Huntington’s disease – a terminal illness without a cure. A DNA test shows Richard and his sister have different fathers, so Richard wonders if this person be his biological father. It came as a complete shock when someone contacted him after his father’s death, claiming to be his real dad. Richard, 53, was very close to his father. Now that his mother has died, Bill wants to find out if DNA analysis can tell him more about his ancestry and if he has any living relatives in the US. The only information Bill had about his father is the name written on his birth certificate. Born through a love affair between his mother and an African-American GI stationed near Loughborough, Bill’s father went back to the States after the war and she never heard from him again.
BBC 2 DNA FAMILY SECRETS SERIES
Episodes Series overview īill, 75, grew up without knowing his biological father.
Dooley and King work with a large team of genealogists, social workers, and doctors to reveal unknown ancestry, find missing relatives and detect genetic disease before it's too late. Each episode follows three people – two of these trying to find out about their family history or ancestry, and another who is seeking to find answers about a genetic disease in the family. Presented by Dooley and King, the series sees Dooley meeting people "across the UK who want to unlock the mysteries hidden in their genetic code". The programme is presented by Stacey Dooley and geneticist, Professor Turi King, and uses the latest DNA technology to solve family mysteries around ancestry, missing relatives and genetic disease. British TV series or programme DNA Family SecretsĭNA Family Secrets is a British television series which began airing on BBC Two in March 2021.
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