(October 15, 2018 at 1:27 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:(October 15, 2018 at 1:27 pm)Jane2d Wrote: test results:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politic...ox_Article
For a million bucks, I would want to have a second opinion. I did not know (and understand why) various populations have not partaken in DNA sampling, but am also skeptical of the access to 1st nation and peruvian samples outweighing access to USA tribal samples.
I took a DNA test. Said I was white as shit. Pretty much all German and English. Which is exactly what our family stories said too. They can even track when your relatives came to the US. Which also lined up exactly with our genological records.
Elizabeth Warren is pretty much as white as me. But you have to respect that she looked into it with science.
I am not sure whether Warren shopped around for an expert that would give her the highest probability to score a hit. I am skeptical of the reading markers from Peru --> indicates Cherokee (Warrens oral history). But for a million bucks (and/or to save face) I would seek out the test that would give me the highest probability to not lose.... and thats the tests result when you get down to the 'science' of this particular method. They did not rule out Native American. And something kept nagging at my memory.
Found it here:
The team looked for a series of nine repeating chunks of DNA, known as 9RA, which falls in a non-coding region of chromosome 9.
They found the 9RA sequence in at least one member of all the Native American populations tested, such as the Cherokee and Apache people. The two populations in eastern Siberia, where the Bering land bridge once connected Asia to North America, also tested positive for the 9RA sequence. --> more at link below
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1...signature/
One would think the good professor would be aware (and I think he is). He talks about chromo 10 but not 9. He used a proprietary algorithm to sequence. This is not to say his result is wrong, but I think it falls under inconclusive.
