Elizabeth Warren releases results of DNA test

Boston Globe ^ | By Annie Linskey

[SeekAndFind]

Senator Elizabeth Warren has released a DNA test that provides “strong evidence’’ she had a Native American in her family tree dating back 6 to 10 generations, an unprecedented move by one of the top possible contenders for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president.

Warren, whose claims to Native American blood have been mocked by President Trump and other Republicans, provided the test results to the Globe on Sunday in an effort to defuse questions about her ancestry that have persisted for years. She planned an elaborate rollout Monday of the results as she aimed for widespread attention.

The analysis of Warren’s DNA was done by Carlos D. Bustamante, a Stanford University professor and expert in the field who won a 2010 MacArthur fellowship, also known as a genius grant, for his work on tracking population migration via DNA analysis.

He concluded that “the vast majority” of Warren’s ancestry is European, but he added that “the results strongly support the existence of an unadmixed Native American ancestor.”

Bustamante calculated that Warren’s pure Native American ancestor appears in her family tree “in the range of 6-10 generations ago.” That timing fits Warren’s family lore, passed down during her Oklahoma upbringing, that her great-great-great-grandmother, O.C. Sarah Smith, was at least partially Native American.

[Oatka]

My Ancestry DNA reports the same amount of African American in this white boys background.

I STILL can’t jump.

[Democrats hate too much]

They are basically saying 10 GENERATIONS! LOLOLOL

[Boomer]

I think President Trump nailed it when he said “who cares”.

[MGunny]

All I can say is....BBBBBBWWWWWHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[salmon76]

Her new name should be White Squaw

[ek_hornbeck]

10 generations ago? That makes her one tenth of one percent Indian (1/2 multiplied by itself 10 times). That’s not even close to what it takes to qualify for a job at the nearest Chief Rolling Dice casino, which requires either 25 or 12.5% Indian ancestry.

[adorno]

It should be 1/1,024

I think that about 99.99% of people born in the U.S. can make that kind of ancestry claim, and most can claim more.

I'm certain that I have DNA from "native" Americans that dates back to perhaps my grandmother, but, I never even mention it (except now).

Where's are reparations payments?

[tired&retired]

Less than 1% Indian,

over 95% the same as a jackass.

[taterjay]

My father in law helped me do some family history 5 years ago. I traced all 4 grandparents and we already had some history that had been researched. My conclusion......every family that has been here since the early 1800s has an actual trace or at least a story of having Indian blood. Mrs. Warren used this itty bitty trace of blood to leverage her career as a student and professor. Shame Shame.

[utahagen]

Do you know what Elizabeth Warren has just done? She has given every high school senior who is applying to college license to check any box he or she wants on the racial/ethnic identification section. The applications do NOT demand any proof. So, an applicant can check, say, “Eskimo”. Then, in the highly unlikely even the school later asks for proof, the applicant can submit from any of these companies, such as 23andMe, a pie chart indicating that he or she is ANY percentage “Eskmio”.

Let the games begin!

[Jack Hammer]

Go back ten generations and you MIGHT find one Injun.

We could ALL say that.

Squaw heap loco, speak with forked tongue.

[allwrong57]

I’m 1/32 Meskwaki, and I didn’t claim native American status to reach minority status.

[JPJones]

“in the range of 6-10 generations ago.” That timing fits Warren’s family lore, passed down during her Oklahoma upbringing, that her great-great-great-grandmother, “

Even that doesn’t fit.

[jerod]

[bert]

Somewhere, sombody back then was a bastard

[HotHunt]

9/10,000th of one percent.

My dog probably has more Native American DNA than this fraud has.

[LostPassword]

She only released some of the details. I have anonymous sources who have seen the full report and it says she
* is 5% weasel (scientists didn’t think they could mate with humans until now)
* shares DNA with Marx (more than with Cherokee but specific % not detectable)
* Mussolini is a first cousin
* She and chairman Mao have the same grandfather
* some things my sources cannot yet reveal.

My sources are at least as good as those the NYT relies on so you can bank on these details. And, as Hannity says “tick-tock” just wait until the “things they can’t reveal yet” are made public. /sarc

[thoughtomator]

> AND HER TEST AND ANALYSIS WAS DONE BY A FRIEND.

Yeah, that was an immediate red flag. Why this unusual method and not the method used by everyone else, unless the intent is fraud?

[bkopto]

The analysis of Warren’s DNA was done by Carlos D. Bustamante, a Stanford University professor

1. It's overwhelmingly likely that Bustamente voted for HRC and is a Rat supporter of Lieawatha.

2. Where is proof of the chain of custody of the sample?

[beekay]

Per James Woods on Twitter -
“The actual facts are that a non commercial tester, Carlos Bustamante, deduced that Warren was between 1/32 to 1/512 Colombian, Peruvian, or Mexican. The dearth of Native American DNA prompted the “examiner” to use these national markers based on migration theory.”