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re: What percent Native American are you? Which tribe?
Posted on 5/30/18 at 2:00 am to TRUERockyTop
Posted on 5/30/18 at 2:00 am to TRUERockyTop
0% according to 23andme and Ancestry despite the usual family myths. Another "super cracker" I guess. 
This post was edited on 5/30/18 at 2:14 am
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Posted on 5/30/18 at 6:44 am to northshorebamaman
I also had the Cherokee myth. On my mothers side. I have several physical features that made me believe. Including difficulty growing facial hair and lactose intolerance.
But 0.0% per a DNA test. My mama, who is not a liberal by any definition, seemed a little disappointed.
I’m not sure why that myth has had so much attraction to so many of us down south. I don’t think it is white guilt for most.
I’m 86% British, 8% Irish/Scotch/Welsh, and a few others. No American Indian.
But 0.0% per a DNA test. My mama, who is not a liberal by any definition, seemed a little disappointed.
I’m not sure why that myth has had so much attraction to so many of us down south. I don’t think it is white guilt for most.
I’m 86% British, 8% Irish/Scotch/Welsh, and a few others. No American Indian.
Posted on 5/30/18 at 6:30 pm to northshorebamaman
So a couple questions about those genetic tests for someone smart to answer:
1. Are genetics/DNA passed down 50/50 every time? I mean, if we take a Russian person and an African person and they have a kid is it possible that their child could be 75% African genetics? I feel like the answer to this is yes, some traits are obviously dominant over others when it comes to phenotypes, but does that show up in genetic profiling?
I guess what I'm getting at is that is it possible that if we took a single generation of northshorebamaman's ancestors might we find that say, only 4% of them were French & German, but the mix just was higher in his genetics?
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2. How exactly do they determine the control or source populations they've tested from these places to say, ok you're British, or French, or German. I'm not even sure what British is ethnically speaking...the original Celtic inhabitants? They've been mixed with so many populations, Latins, Danes, Angles, Saxons, Normans....that I imagine it would be hard to isolate them. The British are the most obvious issue I can think of but that's also true, to a lesser extent, with the French and Germans. How can you be certain that the DNA they're comparing it to is actually what they say it is?
1. Are genetics/DNA passed down 50/50 every time? I mean, if we take a Russian person and an African person and they have a kid is it possible that their child could be 75% African genetics? I feel like the answer to this is yes, some traits are obviously dominant over others when it comes to phenotypes, but does that show up in genetic profiling?
I guess what I'm getting at is that is it possible that if we took a single generation of northshorebamaman's ancestors might we find that say, only 4% of them were French & German, but the mix just was higher in his genetics?
and...
2. How exactly do they determine the control or source populations they've tested from these places to say, ok you're British, or French, or German. I'm not even sure what British is ethnically speaking...the original Celtic inhabitants? They've been mixed with so many populations, Latins, Danes, Angles, Saxons, Normans....that I imagine it would be hard to isolate them. The British are the most obvious issue I can think of but that's also true, to a lesser extent, with the French and Germans. How can you be certain that the DNA they're comparing it to is actually what they say it is?
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