Showing posts with label dna testing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dna testing. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Media Starts to Gets Home DNA Testing for Ancestry Right -- Thank God!

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Kristen V. Brown is back with an excellent piece for Bloomberg, on home DNA testing , that is remarkably astute for a piece in the popular m...
Tuesday, January 16, 2018

DNA Testing for Heritage and Ancestry Is, Simply Put, Inaccurate

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You go to take a cholesterol test, and your doctor, very thorough, sends you to four different labs.  One reports your cholesterol is 200, o...
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Friday, August 18, 2017

Are Ethnicity Percentages and Ancestry Calculators from DNA Tests Accurate?

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The media has blasted headlines this week that show an incredible ignorance of DNA testing for ethnic percentages.  One, which could have be...
Friday, July 21, 2017

AND THE WINNER IS... (Comparing Admixture/Heritage Tests on Gedmatch)

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Methodology: We ran exhaustive tests of several commercial and free DNA-testing labs and ethnicity calculators.   To test the sites, we...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Will Tim Sullivan and Ancestry.com Continue Its VIRTUAL Ethnic Cleansing of Germans?

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23andme discloses right off the bat that it cannot identify German or French ancestry 92% of the time. Ancestry doesn't seem to be abl...
Tuesday, October 11, 2016

How DNA Ancestry Testing Works and How Can I Know It's Accurate

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When a commercial DNA testing site like Ancestry.com or 23andme or FTDNA tests your DNA, they do not know which snippet came from which of y...
Saturday, January 30, 2016

In Praise of Roberta Estes and DNAeXplained.com

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In a world of pseudo-science and echo chambers , a few blogs stick out for being mostly in touch with reality.  In the world of Ancient DNA...