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Twins don't get the same results from DNA ancestry tests
02-08-2019, 04:39 PM
Those DNA kits are a joke, I bet if you sent another sample of your DNA you'd get different results.
Roosh you're absolutely right in thinking they won't keep your DNA safe.
There's no way in hell I've give bio data voluntarily, same shit with the thumb print or face scanner to unlock your iPhone.
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02-08-2019, 05:09 PM
DNA ancestry tests are a bonanza for the police state.
They can "solve" a crime by linking your dna to a crime scene. Whether or not it actually happened.
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02-08-2019, 06:22 PM
I took a one of those. The ethnicity that my dad is showed at well over 50%, which doesn't really add up unless my mom has some of that ethnicity in her, which I'm pretty sure she does not. I'm sure it's generally accurate but not perfect.
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02-08-2019, 06:33 PM
I always thought those things were sketchy.
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02-08-2019, 06:36 PM
Fuck that noise. I dont even give my real phone number when they ask for it at Staples or Office Depot...I give em Kaotic's. (BTW you prolly have a shit load of rewards points there...youre welcome)
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02-08-2019, 06:47 PM
If DNA tests can be bungled this badly, imagine how often other lab tests — blood tests, drug tests, biopsies, etc. — are screwed up and yield false results.
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02-08-2019, 06:52 PM
I really want one of these test though.
I'm 1/1024 sure of it.
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02-08-2019, 10:11 PM
I believe that introns and other "junk" DNA (amazing that that's what it was referred to, as if it's just superfluous genetic coding) are variable in identical twins, that is, they absolutely can be distinguished via PCR.
Not trying to start another thread, but non coding DNA (promoters) is another huge difference among races, and actually is far more susceptible to mutation, especially over thousands of years, given that DNA repair enzymes do not "fix" these regions. They are the very regions that regulate the gene expression. Interesting stuff.
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02-08-2019, 10:45 PM
Could be the result of Microchimerism
Some say the DNA of past partners is stored in the female and traits can be passed on years later even to "your" kids.
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02-09-2019, 05:27 AM
I already did the 23andme DNA testing.
I first I questioned it because it gave me a clearly incorrect result but it was trying to mesh my mom and dad's ancestry. Dad being Middle Eastern and mom being Northern European.
Not too sure of the algorithm but I believe it took markers from both parents and tried to put me into a "specific" dominant ethnic group that included markers for both.
However, once I used the raw data in other calculators it gave me a dead on assessment.
Recently 23andme updated their data pool and it pretty much is dead on accurate for me. Bonus - I got to meet a long lost 2nd cousin whose wedding I went to this last year.
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02-09-2019, 05:46 AM
Yeah like I always wondered how they were able to be so ridiculously specific (you’re 21.5243% northwest pomeranian german!) when even homogenous national populations will have a shit ton of dna overlap with neighboring regions. I know there are certain haplogroups and then like some certain individual mutations you can track pretty closely but it makes a ton of sense to me their percentages are largely bullshit.
I will say like the advent of widespread genetic testing has been a huge support to the old and unfashionable traditional thinking on human racial groups - ie that there have been no super surprising results disproving national origin stories. We also totally would have found out if the jews were actually khazars by now so there’s that.
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02-09-2019, 11:45 AM
I've read that girls absorb DNA from the men who ejaculate inside them. Could this account for at least some of the variance in their DNA tests?
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02-09-2019, 12:06 PM
I recall from a biology class I took in college that DNA tests aren't 100% accurate.
The professor did a test with those gel and die slots that showed tla potential inaccuracy . Cool stuff that made me really question the accuracy of such tests.
When they do these tests for courts they do a confidence rating and then double check it with another test agency to confirm. Someone with a biology background should extrapolate on this further.
I wouldn't be surprised if 23andme and the others had a comparatively low rating level to have such a fast turn around time. Granted, they're probably sending the samples to the government for a full analysis later.
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02-09-2019, 12:13 PM
I've read that the five-to-eight weeks delay is so that they can research your lineage on Ancestry.com. Forget who it was, but somebody ran an experiment where he didn't give them any personal information; they returned the results in a week, and the proposed ancestry was absurd.
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02-09-2019, 12:43 PM
I believe the actual DNA results are accurate, and it's the nonsense where they try to guess your ancestry and break it down into percentages that isn't.
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02-09-2019, 01:29 PM
Seems within the margin of error.
Broadly European vs French/German, those mean the same, of course the latter is more specific, but not by much.