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.
And if that's not enough, dozens of companies now offer to examine your DNA to help you learn more about your ancestry. Humans share about 99.9 percent of the same sequence of DNA. Only about 0.1 percent of the sequence is different among various groups of humans [source: Skloot]. Regional populations of humans tend to share many of the same genetic markers.