Posted on 10/15/2018 9:08:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The genetics researcher who reviewed Sen. Elizabeth Warren's, D-Mass., DNA in an attempt to counter President Trump's "Pocahontas" jibes compared her samples with those from people in Colombia, Mexico, and Peru rather than Native Americans in the U.S.
Warren's DNA was reviewed at her request by Carlos Bustamante, a Stanford University genetics researcher, who compared it to reference samples and reported that he had found a Native American ancestor "approximately 8 generations" ago.
Bustamante, however, didn't compare Warren's DNA against Native Americans who live in the continental U.S., citing cultural reluctance to submit to DNA tests. Instead, he used recent samples from other countries whose populations presumably share a lineage during human settlement of the Americas about 15,000-25,000 years ago.
Warren's attempt to rebut the long-ridiculed claim, which was accompanied by a slickly produced television ad, appeared to be a move calculated to clear the way for a 2020 presidential bid. But it may backfire by adding confusion and controversy.
Some genealogical researchers point to limitations in both science and social meaning of the test results, which seem unlikely to prevent political attacks that Warren falsely claimed to be an ethnic minority to become a Harvard University professor.
Academic skeptics point out the murky nature of DNA reference samples, and others argue that even if Warren has a native ancestor, that doesn't make her an American Indian in a cultural or political sense, or validate past claims of Cherokee ancestry.
Bustamante used DNA reference samples from the 1000 Genomes Project, an international effort that recorded samples from people around the world. He wrote that the strongest proof of indigenous ancestry could be found along Chromosome 10.
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no wonder why she wants to flood our country with them!!
At the rally where he made his pledge in July, Trump told a laughing crowd that if he ever faced Warren in a presidential debate he would toss a DNA testing kit at her and offer ‘a million dollars to your favorite charity, paid for by Trump,
“if you take the test and it shows you’re an Indian.’
Trump has been proved correct. She’s not Indian.
No Tribe in any nation recognizes quantum Blood of lower than 1/32 let alone 1/1024th as Native American
Is this like the Nazi “one drop of blood” laws?
Can you believe how early Trump is getting RID in the Trump Way of his candidacies? Is anyone going to be able to see her as anything but Fauxcahontas?? I mean EVER??
Let me ask Foam Boy, or Low Energy Jeb.
Ms 0.097 percent and 1.6 percent native American indicated on her U Penn human resources form that she was a “person of color”. So her statement would not be false if the color she was referring to was white.That’s her story and she’s sticking to it.
My guess is that Warren already had her DNA run through the 23 and Me or Ancestry.com, with negative results, hence the obscure unknown boutique lab and the Mexican soi-disant "DNA expert".
Think about it. It's a natural for a leftwing political hack to go judge shopping or "expert witness" shopping. Trial lawyers do it all the time. This time she went "DNA expert" shopping.
No where near that high. More like 1/1024th Native American. South American.
A key point —
He added that the new research “... 6-10 generations ago she would have had up to around 1,000 ancestors, many of whom she will not have inherited any DNA from.”
DNA markers in the chromosomes are not passed to every descendant.
the “smart” liberals in america simultaneously failed math, history, AND biology today; and they still don’t quite realize it.
That's why having Native American "blood" is not a criteria accepted by Native Americans for claims by someone of being a member of a particular tribe. It can't prove whether someone has Cherokee ancestors, or any other specific tribe. This was the point made by the spokesmen for the (real) Cherokee tribe rejecting Warren's claim.
Where Warren fails is (1) just because she has a minute drop of Native American blood, that doesn't prove she's a Cherokee and (2) the amount she does have is so minute, she has even less than the average European American who wouldn't dream of claiming to be Native American, let alone the member of a particular tribe.
What is the point of this? She is for abortion and saying she is sad the white democrat who raped her ancestor did not abort?
The Nazis patterned those laws after the old American Democrat South.
Affirmative Action set asides are 1/16th. Is she going to pay back her professor pay?
This is going to go down as the biggest political “own goal” of the year. What was she possibly thinking?! I mean, if you’re her, and you do one of these tests, and your “Native American ancestry” doesn’t come out higher than some minimally reasonable percentage, say 12% or something like that, you just shut the heck up about it, right? In what universe, did this seem like a good idea?
Liz Raza Warren?
Speaking of NAZIs, Warren is more Aryan than the average NAZI Storm Trooper! Even more Aryan than Adolf Hitler.
Many people see her now as a white woman trying to pass herself off as a Native American. In other words, a big time FRAUD!!!
I once told a Paiute Indian friend of mine that I was 1/32 Mohawk as descended from an Indian captive in 1706 and he laughed.
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