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

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Introduction

The Human Genome Project completed their first draft of the very first sequenced human genome in 2000. Augustine Fuentes, an anthropologist at Princeton University talks about his love-hate relationship with these personalized genetic tests for our live show series. He says that when they send you back your results, that splash page is never accurate. The thing it should say on that splashpage is, congratulations, you are 99.9% identical to every other living human. That's not what it tells you.

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