The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 days agoCulturally insensitivemedia.piefed.worldimagemessage-square211fedilinkarrow-up1739
arrow-up1739imageCulturally insensitivemedia.piefed.worldThe Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 days agomessage-square211fedilink
minus-squaregray@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up12·18 days agoSNP based DNA-test. But in my humble opinion as a bioinformatician, genetic variants don’t have nationhood
minus-squaretetris11@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-218 days agoaren’t those chips skewed towards over-represented european (sub)-populations in general though
minus-squareblarg_dunsen@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·18 days agoYou only need 13 relatives to be 100% of something in the 9th generation to have 5% ancestry in it (well specifically 5.078125%, but who is counting).
minus-squarepelespirit@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·18 days agoI think 5% of your DNA comes from a location?
minus-squarelokalhorst@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·18 days agoUS Americans are kind of obsessed with DNA genealogy. The results are mostly insignificant, they can’t tell you anything about the “nation” you are coming from. But it’s fascinating for them to imagine they are 10% Welsh and 20% German.
how can you be 5% anything?
SNP based DNA-test. But in my humble opinion as a bioinformatician, genetic variants don’t have nationhood
aren’t those chips skewed towards over-represented european (sub)-populations in general though
Used to be at least
You only need 13 relatives to be 100% of something in the 9th generation to have 5% ancestry in it (well specifically 5.078125%, but who is counting).
I think 5% of your DNA comes from a location?
US Americans are kind of obsessed with DNA genealogy. The results are mostly insignificant, they can’t tell you anything about the “nation” you are coming from. But it’s fascinating for them to imagine they are 10% Welsh and 20% German.