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In reply to the discussion: Here's the deal with Elizabeth Warren's Native American heritage [View all]Genetic tests are not necessarily reliable with such a small blood percentage, both a negative or a positive could be wrong and different cos. will get different results depending on the sampling they use. I read a long explanation of this someplace. It said you could have no DNA of some specific origin but still be a biological descendant of someone full-blooded.
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Since, as you correctly say, someone could have a NA ancestor but no DNA from that person
pnwmom
Nov 2017
#24
I've taken the test and it's very unreliable for amounts under 6%. It was fun to see that the
pnwmom
Nov 2017
#39
The poster is right. Just as two siblings can inherit very different mixing of genes --
pnwmom
Nov 2017
#40
Climate change will wipe us all out soon and this is what THEY want to talk about
Eliot Rosewater
Nov 2017
#5
Suuuure. Just like Obama's citizenship was "put to rest" by the release of his birth certificate
Hekate
Nov 2017
#15
Don't give in to the ratfcking. It never, ever stops, and nothing will satisfy the haters
Hekate
Nov 2017
#17