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Why You Can't Tell Your Race From A DNA Test

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The Importance of Genetic Testing

"We have enormous biological variation with very little genetic variation," he says. "What it can tell us is where do you map related to these reference populations? What does the movement of humans look like?" The best thing they're doing now is asking: Where were my ancestors 200 years ago, 2000 years ago and 10,000 years ago? And guess what! They're different places."

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