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Has anyone tried any of those DNA services? Was thinking maybe a fun present for my parents and wife’s parents
Has anyone tried any of those DNA services? Was thinking maybe a fun present for my parents and wife’s parents
Did one cause I got a massive discount for it, but it doesn't tell you much lol. If you're white or black it just tells you "99% European" or "99% African". If you're hispanic you can just look up someone else's makeup online. Usually it's just European/Native American mixture. There are some quirky stuff, like your genetic probability for dimples, dandruff, etc... The only useful info is there are some genetic markers for diseases and stuff like that, but not sure how much of a present that is
You can still try it for fun but it won't be very useful, mostly because they get stuff wrong too. And it takes at least ~1 month before process is over.
Has anyone tried any of those DNA services? Was thinking maybe a fun present for my parents and wife’s parents
Also if anybody wants to know where their ancestors really come from i ll do it for just 2 bucks (answer is africa for everybody).
OK so while it might not be accurate it sure as hell is not less accurate than what ever ancestry sells to peopleIt actually might not be.
http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2...rica-sheds-light-behavior-early-homo-sapiens/
https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/evolution-europe?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ina-homo-erectus-sapiens-latest-a8064306.html
There's no way of knowing. I honestly do not trust these fossil dating stuff and even so, the data is extremely limited to extrapolate on a definitive answer. Even if they have the right methodology, there's still a long way to go in finding actual evidence to come to an infallible conclusion.
Feels like Greek leftovers![]()
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Where is that test from? Looks decent enough. But from my older research on this, I thought that these tests only could find the maternal haplogroup or something.
genetically we are quite similar, especially southern greece (my best matched region was penepolese :lol)
Its 23andme, they do quite alot of things, the distribution of recent ancestry is largely bs id say, but yeah paternal haplogroup comes with it (given you are a man, women dont inherit apperently the paternal dna)
Yeah 23andme was the most popular one when I was looking into these.
This stuff is great for medical purposes, for anything else... Let's just say it's fitting it's being discussed in the bullshit thread.
It's great stuff if you want to know if you have inherited a single gene or if you may pass it on to your future children.
But over the hundreds of millennia we have mixed ourselves to the point it's retarded to even assume anything else than that.
What we call races is actually just inbreeding , which is what humans have been doing in dogs to replicate the exact same characteristics, which is useful if you want a dog for your children and you want to be sure it will be a funny and stupidly tame dog (golden retriever), or great at finding rabbits' lairs (jack Russell), with incredible stamina and high tolerance for cold climates (husky), etc.
And "purebred" dogs often have the same issues over the generations, like German shepherds' hip dysplasia. Because they are, you guessed it, inbred.
My point is, some people believe that from these tests they can infer certain characteristics, which can in fact only be inferred after multiple generations of inbreeding, with known consequences (see dogs).
For most of our traits, knowing your parents and your grandparents (personality and physically wise) or looking at yourself in the mirror will give you better results, for free.
So, imho, if you do it for medical reasons, or just for fun I guess, it makes sense. Otherwise, it's a rip-off.
Paternal haplogroup can tell you alot tbh, ancestry composition as in which country you are from however is next to useless.
this is the supreme haplogroup btw :slick:
Paternal haplogroup is a marker on 1 of the 23 chromosomes (sex chromosome). It's basically like 0.01% of your DNAAncestry composition is 22/23 other chromosomes (autosomal) which is the "rest of your DNA" but dating is quite bad (only 200 years back).
If you want a proper DNA test, you need to spend thousands of dollars and have multiple scientists/archeologists looking at it![]()