Determining your ethnic ancestry using DNA analysis is a parlor game. It can help you decide whether you should buy lederhosen or a kilt, but beyond that it just serves a marketing tool for the DNA testing companies. This is especially true for ethnic groups that are not well represented in current databases.
The video between Pocahontas Warren and her Stanford Professor DNA Guru were very carefully scripted and produced to give an impression that her “results” proved Native American ancestry. It did nothing of the sort, it simply provided a range of probabilities, and the range was so broad that it was good enough to show that Warren is a Homo Sapien Sapien.
Even the actual report skirts around specifics. Which markers? They don’t list. Which admixture calculator did they use? I don’t recall them listing. They showed a nice dot of her with other native groups, but didn’t show a dot of her with say far east asians. It was carefully crafted to appear more than it was. It hasn’t been that long since I studied genetics that I would forget such things. Unfortunately the msm wouldn’t be bothered to look further on this less they sink their golden girl.
Agreed. The DNA companies give you an overall reading of the major groups ...which you probably knew anyway, unless you were fantasizing like Liz Warren...and there’s a fringe area which holds a bunch of variably interpretable data. Not enough to build a resume or get special breaks on though.
It was fascinating with my daughter of adopted lineage, though. She has a little bit of everything. It was kind of like a geographical history.