DNA says you’re related to a Viking, a medieval German Jew or a 1700s enslaved African? What a genetic match really means buff.ly/3ZeTk4B
DNA says you’re related to a Viking, a medieval German Jew or a 1700s enslaved African? What a genetic match really means
Genealogical and genetic ancestors aren’t the same thing. A DNA match − or a lack of one − may not tell you what you imagine it does about your family tree.The Conversation
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I've always felt that what DNA matching means is that you were foolish enough to give your genetic record to a third party where it will eventually be made public. Unless your doctor orders it for diagnostic purposes and they keep the data, of course.
All that #23andme data is going to go somewhere out of their customers' control.
Who cares if you are (allegedly) 2 pct. [Insert ethnicity here]?
#dnatesting #privacy