DNA Cousins with Derek Jeter
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Narrator
Jim Gaffigan is about to meet a new relative but not one that you'd immediately think of as Irish. Derek Jeter? -
Henry
Derek Jeter is your DNA cousin. (laughs) Holy cow! Really? -
Narrator
Jim shares an identical stretch of DNA on his fourth chromosome with baseball Hall of Famer Derek Jeter, a match almost certainly made possible by the fact that Derek is biracial. This means that you inherited this shared DNA from a distant, common ancestor somewhere on your family trees, that ancestor's obviously on the white side of Derek's family tree. - You think so? You think it's the white one? Because you have no black side. (laughs) (gentle music)
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