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Elizabeth Warren’s DNA match is to Latin Americans, not Native Americans
Washington Examiner ^ | October 15, 2018 10:03 PM | Steven Nelson

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; dna; elizabethwarren; fauxahontas; massachusetts; slingingbull
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So, Fauxchauntas is a Mestizo?


21 posted on 10/15/2018 9:47:30 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Cherokee people!

Cherokee pride!

What?

Wait...

Never mind.


22 posted on 10/15/2018 9:52:40 PM PDT by Califreak (Take Me Back To Constantinople)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Does Stanford give out degrees in Genetics Fraud? Just asking.


23 posted on 10/15/2018 9:53:18 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: irishjuggler
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?

Maybe she feared it would leak if she opted to sit on it. So, she decided to let it out with as positive a spin as she could manage, hoping to get it over with while there is still plenty of time for the sheeple to forget the episode.

But that's where campaign ads come in ...

24 posted on 10/15/2018 9:54:23 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"He wrote that the strongest proof of indigenous ancestry could be found along Chromosome 10."

Human chromosome 10 is almost exclusively syntenic with chimpanzee, gorilla and orangutan chromosomes 10 or macaque and olive baboon chromosomes 9.

Chromosome 10

25 posted on 10/15/2018 9:55:50 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Deport her!


26 posted on 10/15/2018 9:56:46 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: UCANSEE2
 
 
If that's the case, if she wanted to visit family she could go drop by the primate section at the local zoo.
 
 

27 posted on 10/15/2018 10:10:41 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hey that means we can start using her for the Mexican word of the day memes.


28 posted on 10/15/2018 10:13:17 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So, they went to, what they thought was a sympathetic source for the test, and the source was willing to help but wasn’t able to completely toss their credibility/integrity out the window by lying for Warren. Because Bustamante know’s that under any type of scrutiny/peer review, which is inevitable, that they’d be called out for lying and basically have a career, severely tainted, if not ruined.

How the Dem’s even function is beyond me. She’s considered one of the Superstars and this is what she does? Effin’ Moron.

What’s even sadder is that she’s in positions to propose and write laws, for us, and that the people of Massachusetts are okay with her behavior. Shouldn’t she be getting lambasted for cultural appropriation?


29 posted on 10/15/2018 10:19:37 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: UCANSEE2

She’s 1/1024th Macaca!


30 posted on 10/15/2018 10:25:25 PM PDT by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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To: fidelis
The only thing a DNA test of this type can tell you is if you had Native American blood

It does not even do that, especially since the DNA that was compared to was not actually from anyone who was actually a native of North America. It is complete and total nonsense.

My sister spent $90 on a DNA test from ancestry.com. Thanks to my grandmothers on both our father's and our mother's side who spent years researching... we have a fairly well documented family history. The DNA test directly contradicted most of what we know about our family history. This could be either the result of an inaccurate test or an inaccurate family history. When researching the accuracy of the ancestry.com test I found that it is known to frequently be almost completely useless. Senator Warren's test which was conducted by a friend and political ally to produce a specific result is most likely less than completely useless and likely to be intentionally misleading.

31 posted on 10/15/2018 10:28:56 PM PDT by fireman15
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Not a geneticist....
Statistics manipulation


32 posted on 10/15/2018 10:30:40 PM PDT by ptsal
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

OK, “First Latina President” then...ole!


33 posted on 10/15/2018 10:31:26 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: NoLibZone
"No Tribe in any nation recognizes quantum Blood of lower than 1/32 let alone 1/1024th as Native American".

Not quite. There's a microscopically small tribe I read about, run by some corrupt old geezer, who for a nominal fee will give you a cheezy-looking certificate of tribal membership. I read about them when Ward Churchill was claiming Native American ancestry, but all he had was the paper he bought from this tribal elder.

34 posted on 10/15/2018 10:42:05 PM PDT by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC ("Blessed are the yo67ung, for they shall inherit the national debt" - Pr. Herbert Hoover)
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To: 2banana

“Is this like the Nazi “one drop of blood” laws?”


“one drop of blood” laws is not from the Nazi but from the Democrat slavers. Nazis’ laws are directly taken from the Democrats books (no kidding, it’s a historical fact as documented by Dinesh D’Souza) but they stopped at 1/4.

Even the Nazis were not as racist as the Democrats, that says something!


35 posted on 10/15/2018 10:44:28 PM PDT by miniTAX
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To: 2banana

36 posted on 10/15/2018 10:47:59 PM PDT by Dexter Morgan (Everyone hides who they are.)
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To: nutmeg

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37 posted on 10/15/2018 10:50:08 PM PDT by nutmeg
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
Apparently they don't own any collective tribal land, so they can't make an honest livig the traditional way Native Americans have, ever since the earliest days of the Bering Land Bridge, namely by opening a casino.

(Yes, there was some sarcasm in the above).

38 posted on 10/15/2018 10:51:10 PM PDT by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC ("Blessed are the yo67ung, for they shall inherit the national debt" - Pr. Herbert Hoover)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Interesting post. I strongly suspect you are correct.


39 posted on 10/15/2018 10:51:26 PM PDT by nutmeg
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To: reg45

Good point.

Very good point.

And true. Yep. True.


40 posted on 10/15/2018 10:52:04 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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