Pros of hiring an architect. 1  You, as the owner, have an agent to keep an eye on the contractor and workmanship throughout the project. The architect has a fiduciary responsibility to the owner (under a full service contract). 2  Better design.
Converting centiMorgans into percentages. In order to get an approximate percentage of shared DNA from a Family Tree DNA Family Finder test, take all of the segments above 5 cM, add them together and then divide by 68. The way the calculation works is that your total genome in cMs with the Family Finder test is 6770 cM.
A priori, RQ-PCR is likely to be more accurate and precise than the serial dilution method because male DNA percentages can be expressed as any value between 0% and 100% by RQ-PCR whereas, based on a fivefold dilution series, male DNA percentages can be scored only as one option among a discrete set of percentages, i.