[Midnitethecat]

How accurate is this test?

[digger48]

I wonder too. My sis did this and got my father to do it also thinking there must have been some Elizabeth Warren in our background due to the high cheekbones of our elders. Nope...those traits came from Southern Spain many generations back, she was told.

The only medical issue it noted was a slight chance of hypersensitivity to Warfarin.

[spintreebob]

How accurate is the test? Send in the same sample under several different identities. Send in samples that differ in temperature, edmotional mood, etc.

What will the consistency rate be? That is just one of many measures of accuracy.

Then send in samples from kids who have both the same mom and dad, and kids who share 1 parent but not the other. See if the results make any sense at all.

How can a kid have a greater percentage of an ancestor than the sum of both parents for that ancestor?

Then compare the mail in saliva test accuracy with the in person blood test by a professional.

But accuracy of DNA is no different than accuracy of climate change or accuracy of many other uncertainties.