I'm barely even Middle Eastern. WTF?

[Egbert]

My X chromosome

Why do you even care?

[Bereta_Eder]

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4u1uqs_nicolas-sarkozy-et-nos-ancetres-les-gaulois_news

Video Edited by Ming...

PLEASE don't include videos that self start.
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Me: I didn't know it would self start. It was a suprise for me too

http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/politique/20160920.OBS8427/nos-ancetres-les-gaulois-la-lecon-d-histoire-de-mitterrand-a-sarkozy.html

[BeBMan]

1,7 "unassigned" is referring to alien DNA /Mulder

[rah]

So how reliable is this stuff or is it a scam to take your money?

[Giancarlo]

I'm assuming it is as valid as those family tree scams that purport to do research. Meaning zilch.

[rah]

First site I checked.

A group of scientists now offers a public warning that these ancestry tests have little scientific backing, and are often so unreliable and inaccurate that they amount to "genetic astrology."

So yeah, sounds about right.

And they range from 100-300 dollars. Pretty good scam.

Professors David Balding and Mark Thomas of the University College London warn in a public statement from the Sense About Science campaign group that "you cannot look at DNA and read it like a book or a map of a journey" without supporting historical evidence.

Your DNA contains an enormous amount of genetic information, but most of the information that can be gleaned from it is about the genetic history of whole population - not of individual family trees.

[Elok]

It does sort of raise questions, now that I think of it; if individual people like Al can be such a mad patchwork--and this is presumptively the case across large swaths of the world, after centuries or millennia of war, trade, immigration, slavery, and whatnot--then what's the baseline, "pure" Italian/Ashkenazi/Middle Eastern set of genes they're comparing against? Do they arbitrarily pick some granny from the most inbred part of Tuscany to be their model Italian? Or do they take sets of genes highly characteristic of a given population (like some African pops and the sickle-cell gene), count them up, and declare them probable markers? Either approach is pretty half-ass.

[rah]

Yeah, you have to wonder.
I always laugh when I see an ad where some guy is saying, I thought I was German but I'm really Polish or something equally silly.

[-Jrabbit]

Funny you should say that. The town where my family surname originated has actually alternated between being in Poland and Germany several times, depending on where the border is drawn.

[rah]

Well I guess you'll have to blow 100 bucks to find out what you truly are.

[Giancarlo]

They can't use DNA to find out personal family information. If you want to find out your roots, that requires a lot more digging. I suspect I'm probably a good part Libyan or Moroccan (which is possible for many Spanish people), but that would require actual investigation.

Companies that purport to do this are more interested in your wallet. Maybe there are some genuine investigators that can help, but these companies are a major red flag. Another example of a huge scam are the Coat of Arms companies. Its very rare a family has a coat of arms, and what they sell you is just pulled off google... Usually for $70-$100.

[ZEE]

poor Alby.

[rah]

Yes at least 100 buck poorer.

[BeBMan]

He's to 80% eurocom

[Kidlicious]

I wouldn't tell the liberal chicks that you aren't Middle Eastern if you want to date them.