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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

DNA for identification of perpetrators and relatives is science.

Using DNA to say you are 0.13% Polynesian is not.


40 posted on 11/10/2018 3:53:32 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democracy dies when Democrats refuse to accept the result of a democratic election they didn't win.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I agree, but they can say that you are a 0.13% profile match to Polynesian, with a standard error of +12%/-0.13%. It’s leaving out the estimation error, and lack of a rigorous definition of what that 0.13% (or whatever) means that makes it “junk”.


52 posted on 11/10/2018 4:33:16 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Schumer delenda est.)
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