The tests are nonetheless popular. Ancestry, for instance, reported sales of 1.7 million kits during the 2017 Black Friday weekend, and the company says it has six million people in its DNA database.

You can collect your own DNA for one of these tests by scraping the inside of your cheek with a cotton swab. It doesn’t hurt, and you certainly won’t miss the DNA in your spit.

Ever since DNA was first used in 1986 to catch a killer, it's swashbuckled its way through society as an almost infallible weapon of truth: convicting the guilty, freeing the innocent, revealing ...

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