Twins get 'mystifying' DNA ancestry test results (Marketplace)

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  @felicitymc8200 · 6 years ago

  Just don’t tell me the neanderthal profiling is wrong cause  I’ve already bought the cave and taken up grunting

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• GJ

  @gjscomputerstuff · 6 years ago

  My Mom has always told me I'm from another planet, so I've never bothered to get tested.

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• EL

  @elliottmanning · 5 years ago

  My Kids cried when they found out that they were NOT adopted...

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• GA

  @garshtoshteles · 3 years ago

  Short version for those who feel impatient:<br>DNA tests do not test against ancestors but rather against the contemporary populations whose DNA has been collected and analysed by the companies. Therefore this is rather statistical analysis of the DNA and isn&apos;t certain, but rather uses confidence intervals to make it seem more certain than it is. Maternal haplogroup helps to add some certainty in some cases, but it&apos;s limited. <br><br>Second point: The twins have DNA that the kits assert are either mostly Eastern European, Balkan/Greek, or Italian (they have some Spanish in some of them, too). This is extremely reasonable to have this distribution, as admixture among these populations was actually very common, especially via maritime trade and movement on the Mediterranean.

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• MA

  @maryphillips8069 · 6 years ago

  My mum found her long lost sister through a DNA test, who found other relatives. It may not be accurate, but it&apos;s useful to pull broken families back together

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• MI

  @Mia_M · 7 years ago

  I think why most people are surprised is because they don&apos;t take into account the patterns of human migration throughout human history. So many people have moved, been conquered, have conquered, and as a result there&apos;s a lot of mixing in the overall population.

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• FL

  @flexingingodspeace7774 · 7 years ago

  Your DNA doesn&apos;t change, the way that they analyze the information does.

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• MC

  @McGregor323 · 3 years ago

  If you would like to find your lost relatives, just announce on the network that you hit the Lotto 🧐😉😂😂😂

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• AL

  @algrayson8965 · 5 years ago

  Every time an army passed through they would leave their DNA behind.

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• DO

  @dontlightmyfuse · 5 years ago

  Testing for who you&apos;re related to is very different from testing for where you came from.

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• LE

  @LetzBeaFranque · 6 years ago

  So, the DNA test is the modern version of the news paper horoscope.

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• JO

  @josefhelbling-yy9pm · 2 years ago

  Please don&apos;t forget, Sicily was occupied by many different peoples.

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