Recombinant DNA’s Tricks & Ancestry’s Quirks

The following teaser is from an updated article by Hontas Farmer, published June 15, 2018 at the Science20.com website.

Deep ancestry by DNA is not as straight forward as a paternity test. Simplistic assumptions can lead to grave misunderstandings which are not helped by how DNA test are marketed. I had my DNA tested by Ancestry.com and I am waiting for results from National Geographic’s Genographic Project 2.0. Using the raw data from Ancestry.com and open source tools found at gedmatch.com I found some perplexing results for those who are not scientifically trained.

UPDATED below with my National Geographic Geno 2.0 information and a really odd result.

The following are DNA sequences which show a bright mark where my DNA is the same as that of the DNA extracted from Anzick-1 aka Clovis Boy a 13-thousand-year-old skeleton found with the Clovis artifacts and Kennewick man a 9-thousand-year-old skeleton which would be of a person descended from the same group as Clovis boy. Most all Native Americans have DNA from Kennewick man…

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About Leland Meitzler

Leland K. Meitzler founded Heritage Quest in 1985, and has worked as Managing Editor of both Heritage Quest Magazine and The Genealogical Helper. He currently operates Family Roots Publishing Company (www.FamilyRootsPublishing.com), writes daily at GenealogyBlog.com, writes the weekly Genealogy Newsline, conducts the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library, and speaks nationally, having given over 2000 lectures since 1983.

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