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59. The limits of ancestry DNA tests, explained

Thu Feb 7, 2019, 05:20 PM

Feb 2019

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/1/28/18194560/ancestry-dna-23-me-myheritage-science-explainer

Twins get some 'mystifying' results when they put 5 DNA ancestry kits to the test
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/dna-ancestry-kits-twins-marketplace-1.4980976

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In defense of Elizabeth Warren....personal experience [View all] Peacetrain Feb 2019 OP

what pisses me off is that we as a country decide things like tax rates on the basis of this crap. unblock Feb 2019 #1

boy, well said. ProfessorPlum Feb 2019 #8

I couldn't have said it better myself n/t ZeroSomeBrains Feb 2019 #25

Yes!! Well said mountain grammy Feb 2019 #37

This!!!! Charlotte Little Feb 2019 #66

My thought on this is mainstreetonce Feb 2019 #2

I agree PatSeg Feb 2019 #67

Too many are trying to make an issue of it Bradshaw3 Feb 2019 #3

At the end of the day, the voters will decide. nt LexVegas Feb 2019 #4

How many people are like this person? eissa Feb 2019 #5

Being told you are a different kind of white person is a little different. nt LexVegas Feb 2019 #6

You Know This RobinA Feb 2019 #16

But when a form asks for race TexasBushwhacker Feb 2019 #18

I Do. RobinA Feb 2019 #55

White people's ancestry HAS been infinitely more important than any non-Whites Caliman73 Feb 2019 #68

Warren relayed a family history of Native ancestry gratuitous Feb 2019 #7

I believe (and please correct me if I am wrong) ProfessorPlum Feb 2019 #11

I don't know about Harvard gratuitous Feb 2019 #13

Wait, what? SCOTT BROWN started the "Pocohantas" thing? maddiemom Feb 2019 #40

Yes ProfessorPlum Feb 2019 #45

Yes, and his supporters did the woo-woo yell and hatchet-wave gesture at her. Nice, right? Hekate Feb 2019 #65

This message was self-deleted by its author Ferryboat Feb 2019 #60

THIS Ferryboat Feb 2019 #62

I had a similar experience. hopeforchange2008 Feb 2019 #9

It's like political polling customerserviceguy Feb 2019 #57

I was told we had Asian ancestry. I believed it because....my mom was a Korean woman. LexVegas Feb 2019 #10

I think it was intentionally misleading. Her parents aren't native, she knows nothing of SweetieD Feb 2019 #12

she NEVER claimed to be Native American - on edit, I was not correct on this point ProfessorPlum Feb 2019 #14

Wait. She didn't print "Native American" on her Bar application? Hassin Bin Sober Feb 2019 #15

I don't know if it was the bar application or some other test or what ProfessorPlum Feb 2019 #17

Should Obama's mother described herself as black? Like on applications under race put black? SweetieD Feb 2019 #23

what you seem to be suggesting is if Obama was asked what his heritage was ProfessorPlum Feb 2019 #27

She wrote it out. Hassin Bin Sober Feb 2019 #26

whoa ProfessorPlum Feb 2019 #28

The only thing I can figure is she was a Republican at that point. Hassin Bin Sober Feb 2019 #35

yeah, bizarre ProfessorPlum Feb 2019 #36

I like her too. Hassin Bin Sober Feb 2019 #38

It has Race: _________ and she wrote in American Indian (no multiple checkbox stuff) progree Feb 2019 #34

It the question was "check all that apply", then I think this is case closed. LisaM Feb 2019 #50

This message was self-deleted by its author druidity33 Feb 2019 #47

You are a couple days behind on the news cycle. Hassin Bin Sober Feb 2019 #51

Yeah, seeing it now... nt. druidity33 Feb 2019 #52

She was wrong for putting down Native American as her race on the Texas bar SweetieD Feb 2019 #20

need documentation of both of those claims please ProfessorPlum Feb 2019 #21

Google it. It came out a few days ago. Both the application and her response to it. SweetieD Feb 2019 #24

She knew it wouldn't benefit her. My husband was filling out forms in the same era, pnwmom Feb 2019 #43

As someone who's more that 5/8 Ojibwe, I don't think she intentionally misled anybody. I'm much catbyte Feb 2019 #53

My grandmother was one half Crow. Born in Lodge Grass, Montana, in the 1880's. panader0 Feb 2019 #19

She never claimed to be native american - on edit, that's not true, thanks for the info ProfessorPlum Feb 2019 #22

How about when she applied for the State Bar of Texas? panader0 Feb 2019 #29

Yes she did LongtimeAZDem Feb 2019 #30

See #17 above. She wrote "American Indian" as her race. SharonClark Feb 2019 #31

I think the issue is not that she thought that she had Native American ancestry frazzled Feb 2019 #32

"...just a little scared at the thought of being so inbred." LOL! deurbano Feb 2019 #58

my uncle told me in 1979 they had a grandmother who was Cherokee demigoddess Feb 2019 #33

I once checked Eskimo on a University form. Scruffy1 Feb 2019 #39

Same here. BigmanPigman Feb 2019 #41

Just because NA doesnt show up in a DNA test doesn't mean you don't have NA ancestry... WePurrsevere Feb 2019 #42

I don't know how much we can trust DNA tests IronLionZion Feb 2019 #44

Huh? shanti Feb 2019 #49

Not for ancestry. People have gotten different results from different companies IronLionZion Feb 2019 #54

I've taken both shanti Feb 2019 #56

The limits of ancestry DNA tests, explained IronLionZion Feb 2019 #59

Well said. This has LOSING ISSUE written all over it for Republicans. sandensea Feb 2019 #46

I took the 23nme test too shanti Feb 2019 #48

The reason I cannot get bent over Elizabeth Warren's DNA snafu is . . . personal experience peggysue2 Feb 2019 #61

I have a Choctaw g-g-grandmother, Who may or may not be Choctaw. nolabear Feb 2019 #63

Yeah, me too. TomSlick Feb 2019 #64

It is amazing to me that so many have had the same experience! NT Peacetrain Feb 2019 #69

Call Trump " the Swede" McCamy Taylor Feb 2019 #70

Brilliant!! Peacetrain Feb 2019 #71