Identity Crisis (rebroadcast)
Big Picture Science
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Genealogy Tests Are Limited in the Formation They Can Give You
One reason why these ancestry tests are limited in the formation they can give you is that their data bases are not large enough. And it's just simply that they need to test many more people and in many different localities in both asia and africa. So we're just not that good at interpreting the health consequences of the genum. But for the ancestry testing, it really comes down to who is in the data base. It would pretty much have to sequence everybodyer test everybody, in order to find all the variations that would pin point where you're from. That's all so hard because people don't stay in one place. They mix and mingle. Every person is is
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