AncestryDNA Might Be Totally Bogus
One anthropologist says DNA-by-mail kits are ‘about as accurate as looking in the mirror.’
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1 min readAug 1, 2017
Ever used a DNA-by-mail kit like AncestryDNA or 23andMe?You might want to think twice before putting too much stock in your results. According to University of North Carolina-Charlotte anthropologist Jonathan Marks, the kits are not necessarily based on sound science. Here’s why: