RACIAL IDENTITY SOCIAL ENGINEERING

[Note: AncestryDNA was founded by Mormons. As of 2009, however, Ancestry became a publicly traded company and since 2013 has been owned by private “equity” firms and members of Ancestry’s management team.]

One reason not to buy a DNA test from any company for the purpose of determining data about meta-racial makeup – thereby allowing it to influence one’s self-identity – is that all they are really doing is comparing a part of your genome to sample groups from certain regions of the world and in turn giving you estimates which vary from company to company. AncestryDNA, for instance, is known for overestimating Scandinavian ancestry and being insensitive to amerindian admixture. They just compare your DNA to a limited sample group of people said to have deep historical roots in an area and then determine estimates concerning what part of the world your ancestors lived based on divergent respective algorithms. I have been referring specifically to the autosomal DNA tests. However, although haplogroups/haplotypes (deriving from yDNA and mtDNA tests) are informative to some extent (as is the autosomal data), they cannot tell you much about your total genetic makeup. - Renegade Tribune