[ExI] it's the yoga! was: RE: The Doomsday Clock

Dave Sill sparge at gmail.com
Fri Feb 9 19:36:02 UTC 2018


On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 1:55 PM, <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

>
>
> Ja, we know these 70 dollar DNA kits are not terribly accurate, but they
> did a terrific job on mine.  I was able to find DNA-linked cousins in both
> Sweden, Germany and Ireland, and trace right back to the place they came
> from in two of those three cases.  I would give them a score of not perfect
> but good, a solid B+.
>

Did you read the article? It's not about the tests being inaccurate, it's
about the inherent limitations of the process of determining geographic
origin from a set of SNPs.

-Dave
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