What DNA ancestry tests can - and can’t - tell you
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- Опубликовано: 15 апр 2019
- I took a DNA ancestry test. It didn’t tell me where my ancestors came from…
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At-home DNA ancestry tests have become hugely popular in recent years. More than 26 million have taken one of these tests. If their marketing is to be believed, they can help you learn where your DNA comes from, and even where your ancestors lived.
But the information that can be inferred from your DNA is actually much more limited than testing companies are letting on. And that has lead consumers to misinterpret their results - which is having negative consequences.
Further reading:
The limits of ancestry DNA tests, explained
www.vox.com/science-and-healt...
Was I part British, part Dutch, a little bit Jewish? The oddness of DNA tests.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation...
White nationalists are flocking to genetic ancestry tests - with surprising results
www.scientificamerican.com/ar...
Direct-to-consumer racial admixture tests and beliefs about essential racial differences
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/...
The human genome diversity panel browser
hgdp.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/gbro...
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Vox owo cool!
Everything i knew about my DNA is a LIE!! LOL jk but thank you for the insight. Very informative.
I like that the actual video title is not the least bit clickbaity.... and then you went and wrote THIS summary... yeah. Sure.
Insightful videos like these are the best vox has to offer. I'm really satisfied with this one, thanks for your hard work
My DNA test results just came out and I'm proud to say that I'm from the surface of the Earth.
Kevin Luo Way to piss off the dungeon dwellers, mate!
...and in a few more generations of mixing, that is all that this ethnic testing will be able to tell you.
Yeah we cavedwellers have it ruff.
do you really though?
I’m proud of you bro 😤😤
I found out 50% of my dna came from my mother. They couldn’t pin down the other 50%, but I’ve got a pretty good idea.
@nPlatin LMAO
The milkman?
The plumber actually.
@nPlatin SWEET HOME ALABAMA
it came from your uncle
I just took a DNA test, turns out I'm 100% tired
Grey Ang same
Same
same
Same
same
Are you trying to tell me woah wicky isn’t black 😤
It sounds like he's trying to tell us she is...
I laughed out loud
In a multiethnic country race tends to be of importance to people.
For the blacks is "They are blacks". But for the whites is "They are blacks too". It's just anti white activity based on pure hate against the whites.
@@sebrands Only important to weirdos.
My DNA test came I’m 13.4% lamborgini and 86.6% honda civic
Lovedeep Brar 😂😂😂😂🤣
Ricer
wow congrats
wOwzERs
cause of the scissor doors man smh
So those test kits won't tell me if I'm related to royalty from the 1600's? Well then screw that
I’ve just found my 25th great grandfather
Robert the Bruce
King of Scotland
@@melindad3643 that's hard because sadly there's no much info (at least on Google) even if you search your mother's/father's or grandparent's name. For old documents they're not digitally accessible
Don't kill my hopes of deluding myself that I'm 0.000001 viking
i feel like people only mention vikings within the context of being genetically related to them.
10% woooooooo
Viking was a job, not an ethnicity, so unless you also consider yourself 12% secretary and 0.5% McDonald's employee...
My mom got 80% Scandinavian, so basically shes probably a viking queen
@Lukas Specifically the term Viking applies only to Scandinavian raiders, as the word itself is Old Norse in origin, pretty much the entire world had "Vikings" just they're not called that because they weren't Norse pagans.
I did the test to see if I was adopted, something I have suspected all my life. Found out my dad was not my dad. AncestryDNA also listed a half sister and a slew of half nieces and nephews. These tests can give you very accurate info. It just depends what you want from them.
I was hoping these tests would explain to people how to best interpret the info...
Instead we had them preach to us how we should not believe dna tests.. that all people are the same.. there is no difference between chinese and africans.. because racism bad...
What a joke
You can only find relatives if they just so happen to take the same test you did. Most people are looking for ancestry cues, not distant living relatives.
Dna testing for relatives is easier than dna testing for regional dna given pretty much everyones moved around at one point or another so dna that way more diverse
@@sdarling6518 I was wondering how this works. People find family they never knew about
My father never got to know his real father, but did a DNA test and managed to find a half sister and 2 half brothers. This was very accurate and we met them and found out more about my grandpa as he lived with them.
Hey! It might be meaningless and imprecise, but at least they cost a lot and they sell your genetic data later!
Mad man the dna ethnicity results are not the only part of it. The real value in taking a DNA test is the Relative Matches.
From most companies you can get the raw data and analyse it yourself for different medical markers. If you then know your prone to prostate cancer you can get a checkup more often. Is that meaningless?
@@LukasDohn the scary part is when insurance companies can get ahold of that probability for cancers, etc in your DNA and choose not to sell your insurance based of something you may not have known you were genetically prone to
@@TheItGirl113 Yeah, that should be illegal. But that's a legislative issue. The test/information can be really useful.
@@namelastname4873 And that is problematic by itself.
My grandpa took a DNA test through National Geographic and he was bragging about how his ancestors were traced all the way back to East Africa, not realizing that ALL humans are from East Africa
Sorry some from west African sorry
@@vanousisi8112 you gotta be kidding me you comment without research
Due to new researches that's questionable
DNA testing does not go to the beginning of humans, only up to thousands of years and a minimum of hundreds. They can only show recent DNA history and migrations
Naw
As someone who's an adoptee of a closed adoption, I'll take any guesses I can get. I'd prefer solid results, but a probability of what ethnicity I am is better than nothing, at least for me.
Your guess is better than theirs and cheaper.
Ethnicity is not written in genes
You wont find any answers doing this you are better off just identifying with whatever you feel like
Found my dad’s siblings and my wife found her mother’s, this stuff works. You have to use other tools, and other sites but it works. Ask those on child support
My test came back 0.0003% amphibian, and now everyone is confused.
Think about it, you're giving away your genetic code to a profitable industry.
What could possibly go wrong?
Nothin'. I could give it if they ask for it. If they offer a service as a bonus, why not
You giving not only to farma-industry, which can be used to make vectored viruses - bio-weapon illness that will target some races or even countries with big number of DNA-markers. So, US gov can attack Iran, China or some Eastern Europe's country with your help.
Room Empty They could also use it to turn the freaking frogs gay or combine it with the Florine in water to mind control us.
if the farma industry is in need of genes to develop a bio weapon to decimate iran they're not gonna look for it in your spit, they have millions of blood banks all throughout the world, your spit is the last place they are gonna look for genetic material in.
If you ever been to the doctor they already have your dna.
Im :
90%depressed and
20%sad
-10% ignorant
@@wennwenn1422 at least you evened it out for him
110% miserable.
@@wennwenn1422 r/wooosh
@Skinny Worshipper r/woooosh
My mom took a DNA test. Turns out she's a 100% human.
Really? My mom got 30% fae
Doubt it
That's the nicest thing anyone has ever said about their mom
Another issue not mentioned is if the reference population is fairly low, the results might not show up in that population. I know my great-grandmother was Native American (Pamunkey tribe), but my ancestry test shows me as having 1% in the Native American population - which is far lower than it should be (should be around 12%.) There just aren't enough Native Americans providing samples for the site to be able to give a good percentage.
Edit: Thank you folks for the responses. You're right that proportional DNA might have something to do with it. It's just weird that I have less than 1% Native American match but almost 3% Sub-Saharan African when we have basically no evidence of any African ancestry (slight possibility given the Pamunkey tribe stole black slaves and co-mingled with them every so often, but there's no evidence this happened.)
Edit Also: And yes, we're sure my great-grandmother is actually Native American and not a "Native American" cause she was born and raised on the Pamunkey reservation by Native American parents.
You also might not be as native Americans as you think. Are you sure you're great grandmother wasn't "a native American princess"? Older generations loved to make up supposed indigenous ancestors
Tamerlane yeah I’m pretty sure my family is making my Native American background up, I’ve never seen proof
@@Emperor.Penguin. No, we're sure. She was a Pamunkey. Born on the reservation. Her picture is in the Smithsonian archives.
@@CeilingNinja she could also be mixed race.
@@Emperor.Penguin. It's possible, certainly. I doubt, however, that I'm more Sub-Saharan African (as my results say) than I am Native American. Somewhere the numbers are falling improperly.
"DNA tests don't actually tell you where your ancestors lived. It just gives you probabilities on where you're most likely to find relatives today." Hmmm..
But your relatives could move...
Humans have migrated a lot throughout history.
As somebody who was adopted I just wanted to find out if I had any family turns out I had a sister and uncle and also learned why I have schizophrenia it taught me alot more about my own history more then ethnicity but rather knowing something outta 30 years gives you peace of mind
Rumor has it that Elizabeth Holmes college roommate is running these ancestry tests...
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Asking a sociologist instead of a geneticist about DNA testing... Classic Vox focusing mostly on presentation rather than good journalism
a geneticist would have said the same thing. it's common knowledge that "races" by all means aren't real by genetic standards. it's a sociologists job to study and explain how social categories like these impact us
so yes. good journalism vox, very cool.
@@marbleplexus well some geneticists on here on youtube and elsewhere have explaned opposite to what the sociologist and video have said on dna testing
@@DaniMrtini yea? and who are they? mind if you show us?
@SHUT DOWN I am a graduate of Molecular Biology, but not directly in the field of Geneticist's, but Vox is right on this one.
I am totally aware of the faults of these DNA tests, but I still love hearing about people’s ancestry results. I think the idea that we are ALL made up of such diverse combinations is so interesting, and it’s amazing to imagine our thousands of ancestors coming together to create one, perfectly unique YOU!
I found a 'loophole' and just used old documents to find where my ancestors came from and just computed how much of their DNA I shared with them, its not perfect but saved me money from buying one one of those kits.
My dad and I both did the ancestry dna kit - he showed up 25% Greek and no Greek was found in mine!! (Yes he’s my real dad before anyone makes the joke😂)
Wow, not a very accurate test then!
Coukd be because he is 1 generation closer to your ancesters than you, it shows up as it hasn't been diluted as much. Granted you probably should have been at least a little greek but the again the methods being used are always being refined and updated so it is possible if you log back in to ancestry dna at some point in the future you'll have greek in your results. My dna result was spot on
Shantarah then it came from your mother
which test
476 Anno Domini shes 100% Irish 😊
I have naturally red hair, extremely pale freckled skin and blue eyes, but because my grandmother's family was First Nations from Washington/BC, I have a few random things that are very Native American, such as my dental structure, inability to process dairy, allergies and lack of body odor. It's fascinating; I've had dentists refuse to believe that my dental records belonged to me because I look 100% European. I also have epicanthic/monolid eyes, but I got that from my 100% Swedish father. We can't even detect any Sami ancestry, and he has spent 20 years with family history as his main hobby. In conclusion, genetics is wild.
What do u mean dental structure? What looks different or ? I look European but have Native American in my DNA and I was told by my orthodontist that my teeth were something that I forgot Nd also my dentist too.. I wasnt listening both times. Lol
I definitely hear that! I'm multiracial and my brother's hair is completely different to mine, we have different eye brows and brow bones, different dental structure, but the same skin tone, the same eyes, ears, and lips, and we're the same height and shoe size. Most people think we look exactly alike, because they only see the skin colour and physical size, but looking at the smaller details, we each got different bits of genetics from all over the world.
@@timesn7774 it's to do with bite width and shape. I've got a very wide, flatter dental shape than most europeans who tend to have narrower, more elliptical shapes. (I think.....)
Is lack of body odour a real thing? I am jealous :D
@@margaritam.9118 it's linked to the ABcc11 gene and it's found in people of east Asian or Native American descent. It's linked to low or no body hair, body odor, and dry earwax instead of wet. My mother and her mother are the only ones who had it.
I see these tests as a positive rather than a negative effect on our understanding of race. I see it as how related we all are rather than how much we are separated from each other. Those white nationalists or any racist would see this test as a way to prove their "racial" purity (even though race is just a construct because we are all of the human race).
Technically, we are different sub-species of the same race....for PC reasons, we don't say "breed" or "sub-species"
The races have different gestation periods, ave brain sizes, drug reactions, heat and cold tolerances, etc.
A physician that doesn't take race into account, practices bad medicine.
Crazy cause the large majority of white people get only white it’s only about 4% of the white population in the U.S that has mixed race its lowkey funny how hard they went to not inter mix
thats an interesting take. goo point
@@rodolfolasparri479 I'm sorry but brain size? you're a dumbass
My biology teacher said that race is not a construct and that different sub-species do exist. It's just race obsessed americans try to convince themselves that race is a not a thing or that it's everything. Always so Extreme, YIKES.
In the beginning People just didn't like that connotation because it made us more animal. I don't see the difference between dog breeds and human ethnicities. Also given how innacurate these tests are all those white nationalist are bound to get a 4 % african.
What's hilarious about this product is that it really outlines American's obsession with race/ethnicity. They are willing to pay money so that an obscure test tells them they're exotic.
I genuinely don’t understand the concept of being “proud” of an ancestry. Why should I be proud of something I have no control over, especially something I was born into? I think ancestry is interesting but I truly don’t think it should have any bearing over my life (can’t be helped when it’s obvious physical features like having Asian features or red hair for example, can’t help that people know your ancestry based off physical features). I’m Hispanic and my sister took an ancestry test that told her she was 60% Native American and 40% Spanish (yeah big surprise lol) and my family has always told us stories that our great great great relatives were from Native tribes, but we’ve never once seen proof, we don’t know anything about these cultures, we shouldn’t claim to be a part of these communities that we don’t even know with certainty that we are a part of.
proud in this sense is less I did something good because you're right. we had nothing to do with it. it's more proud in the sense of appreciating your connection to something bigger than yourself like when your school's football team wins the big game. you probably had nothing to do with it, but you're connected
@@jobshadow I like that description more. I also think people can take that too far like when crazed fans set the opposing team's fan's cars on fire over the outcome of a game lol
@@jobshadow if you are so miserabel that you have to claim the victory of your school foot Ball Team, then you truly are no better then the white supremesist who claim to be better then other just cause of their colour skin wich coincidentally looks simular to the skin tone of "great people"
@@derljackson5365 such a false equivalent. There is a difference between being proud, and tearing someone down for being different. It's okay to be white (from whatever european country) and proud 😂 the problem is when you start killing people who look different that you. Get a clue, child.
You don't HAVE to be proud but you can always find it interesting and inspiring.
Lmao mine was scarily accurate - down to exact regions my grandparents are from
Which one did you use?
@@dayalasingh5853| yeah which one
which one did u use
@@bex6156 Ancestry!
@@1955DodgersBrooklyn is it better/more accurate?
It's probably more meaningful, much more meaningful to figure out your geneaology to see who you ancestors were as many generations back as you can. It takes more work, but it means a heck of a lot more to your identity and where you come from.
I know this is kind of off topic but my friends dad found his long lost brother when their DNA matched on one of those kits. Idk pretty cool.
I found alot of relatives through my test too it's so cool to see how many people you're related to in some way shape or form
@@unapologeticallyme8513 how did you do that?
@@unapologeticallyme8513 is there is any other dna relative kit? Hmm so far I knew that ethnicity dna kit only reveal our ethic. Its pretty interesting when we got to know who is our far relative
I'm trying to figure out the best dna test to see if I have any long lost relatives
@@unapologeticallyme8513 how? Please Answer
I feel like the tests would be much more useful if they predicted people's chances to have a certain disease or cancer. Similar tests actually do this. But it (of course) depends on whether people really want to know their chances of getting a certain, possibly terminal, illness.
I found my DNA test mostly accurate since I've traced my ancestors on both sides of family back at least 4 generations.
It's the smaller percentage findings that are likely the most inaccurate
Well you have another generation at least to find where the small percentages come from! About 5 generations are where you gain your DNA. Anything after could happen but it's not gonna reach you, it's too far back.
If your percentage was a low percentage like 4%-5%, then after a few updates was reduced it doesn't mean it's a false positive. It means the reference populations and data changed the algorithm and more precisely aligns/matches the DNA you carry. Also, if you get that percentage from a parent and it's reduced (and stays on your chart/doesn't disappear completely), it's _unlikely_ it's a trace. It's more likely in your DNA!
I would love to see a double blind test - send in your dna multiple times to the same company with different names associated and see if they give you the same results.
Chuck Poll my mom is doing this. So far she has results from 2 companies and they are pretty much identical.
@@MeganMcIntosh Any updates on that?
don't ask a sociologist ask an actual geneticist or biologist they can show you lol
Right, that is what I thought.
Sociologist employ genetists' knowledge to explain the human social history. There is no problem at all. What she said are real limitation that exists.
c'mon. They have to do something besides teach Sociology. Otherwise, that degree would completely useless.
About my Legos ? What can it tell about em' ?
That it hurts when you stand on them
You should have definitely mentioned the other methods of dna tests (this is only simple autosomal test) look up more about Y chromosome tests or mtdna tests. These show you your haplogroup and are extremely interesting!
To clarify, reference populations are mostly constructed from populations today, but these populations will have ancestors from other places in past migration. So how do you classify a genetic variation meaningfully to a specific geographic area? You also only inherit a tiny portion of the DNA of each of your ancestors, and a lot of markers that might have some association with geography is lost. So genetic ancestry tests can really only give you a good guess about your ancestry maybe several generations back.
Is there scope for them realistically to become more accurate in the near future? Sequencing a whole genome, for instance, might be easier to do in the coming years and, perhaps couple with richer database, may offer us a chance at a greater, more bespoke understanding of our own ancestry. Great video, thank you.
If you honestly expected it to be 100% accurate I'm sorry to tell you you're incredibly naive and that isn't how the world works.
No one expects 100% lol but the percentages are off by alot
My issue !
After watching this I’ve come to a conclusion:
I’m constipated.
I am pretty confident with their guess. I see no issue here. The test got my parents birthplace correctly, and properly identified the Mexican state that they are from. 23andme guess has been getting better and better.
Did it mention, say, where in Spain your ancestors come from, or when they migrated over?
What the hell is a sociology professor doing talking about genetics??
She rrally doesnt need to say anything beyond what you would learn in high school biology so idk why Everyone is throwing a hissy fit
Her area of field could be bio-ethnic ?? That’s a sociological and a bio field. She could be a demographer? Sociology is a science. While most sociology majors go into mathematics, some do venture out in chemistry and biology since sociology is a foundation to those fields as well :-)
@@leibnizth Sociology and Demography have absolutely nothing to do with the technical side of genetic genealogy. Taking Introduction to Biology in college does not qualify to pontificate about how precise are those tests.
@@topmog So what qualifies you to pontificate what sociologists and demographers can and cannot possibly have knowledge about? You don't need to take any classes at all to figure out how these tests work, the information is out there for all of you to read. My guess is that was what she has done. And seeing as it is part of her research project into how people interpret and use genetic ancestry testing I would say she is way more qualified to talk about it than you are to talk about what her field of work entails.
Shhh goy, stop noticing things.
That’s weird I can find my moms DNA but when Look at my dad side ... it’s mostly from grocery stores .
And they all have,”I will be back, am buy some milk.”
If you want to learn who your family really was, go do a lot of research on documents, immigration records, censuses, etc. My mom and myself did one of these tests and there were a lot of errors in the percentages with much of our already filled out family tree. DNA tests tell you a probability of where your family may have come from. Doing genealogy actually shows the individual people and their stories.
I'm going through a unique situation with Ancestry DNA. None of my father's family members are on Ancestry DNA. I took the test mainly to know more about my father's side of the family and got nothing. I put my father's father name in my family tree and got no hints. None. Every information I'm seeing is from my mother's side. Her cousins, her parents and her ancestors. All of their family tree is linked to my mother. When looking at people who match my DNA, my last name don't even show up. Something is very wrong, here.
I'm really glad that you brought this up. Even though I know next to nothing about human genetics and how it affects physical features, I knew deep down inside something was off about this, especially when in other video ads they kept saying "this is only along your maternal bloodline". Next, I understand it being helpful for finding if you have any distant relatives out there, but if that is its most useful result, then it shouldn't be more than one company each with its own database. Each country should have ONE database. Finally, I would love for you to investigate into those companies that claim that by analyzing our DNA they can utilize science to suggest the best diet plans and exercise plans.
I just got my 23 & me results and am completely underwhelmed by the lack of specifics and the very broad generalities that are basically "cover all bases" long with nonsense telling me I wake up around 7am on my days off... It also tells me I'm bald- I would never have know otherwise. Save your money guys.
Waiting on my 23&Me results. Thanks for keeping me enlightened 😁
Thankyou for elucidating this.
DNA charts basically tell you which parent was dominant in sex.
When they do these analysis how far back in time do they go? 200 yrs? 500? 1,000? I had a 23 and Me analysis and it was very accurate with what I know of my family history since the mid 1800's. I'm 100 % Eastern European just like I knew I was. My ancestors were Polish, German and Austrian ( Croatian) so there were no surprises.
Polish, German and Austrian are central Europeans
@@mitchamcommonfair9543 no its not, its southeast west caribean
6-10 generation so 200 is a good approximate but it can go farther back
Anyone else really happy to see Echo in there?
thank you! just finished my exam for forensic DNA testing (we look at RFLPs not SNPs but SNPs are being considered for the future of forensic DNA testing) and i was aware that these tests were giving a wavy percentage likelihood but i knew many others didn't and it stressed me out because humans have so little distinctions between us and it really did make a lot think that race is a hardlined topic
I found out my paternal grandfather cheated on my paternal grandmother with an ancestry test. Sure there's a margin of error....
This is why I roll my eyes at these tests. They don’t really tell you a lot more than what you already know.
They also don’t tell you anything about who you are as a person. For that you have to look at who your family is that you interact with and who your friends are. That forms the person that you are.
There was a video buzzfeed put out and there was a girl who legit started crying because she learned about the “history” that she didn’t know she had.
Yeah. Right.
It's true, they don't tell you what kind of person you are but however it can help you with your family history. I found out was a bit German which I didn't know. It turned out to be true when we looked further into it. So sometimes they are right.
Amigps01 the dna ethnicity results are not the only part of it. The real value in taking a DNA test is the Relative Matches.
I love that they paired with one of my other fav. channels
Awesome collaboration Vox and Verge, hoping for more to come!
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I could do that, the answer is always yes.
It’s very helpful to reference your genetic test against your family history if you can. My genetic test mostly confirmed what my family believed. Sometimes even down to specific cities.
My parents took these tests and there is nothing about cities-just regions.
@@sdarling6518 same
Why would you go to a professor of sociology for this? If you wanted to bring an expert in the video to make a few comments, a geneticist or a genetic counselor would’ve been more appropriate.
Using an expert who is not technically qualified in the field you are talking about further reinforces that Vox manufactures stories rather than reporting them.
Genetist knows data but not necessary knows the history behind those data.
Beautiful video in every way, I liked the the info and the social implications. Great one Vox!
I went with ancestry dna.. I learned I have an older brother with 2768cM (full relation- same parent), we never met. I also found, the lesser percentages identify me stereotypically more than my majority DNA. Appearance, habits, language, learning... the small percentage was more precise. 40 and 30 percent irish and french, and I don't know either culture from a hole in the wall. I then learned Ancestry DNA's explanation: Time in location. This does not mean you are the location, physically.. it means you were there for a long time. It is a very interesting subject. You can be african, and be 100% american like me...or from Iran, or anyplace. america is too young to have us colorful people on our own marker.
Additionally, even if the tests were accurate, what would it change? I'm mostly west European, knowing from family history. But the culture I grew up in is Balkan culture. I play in a çoçek band. I own many traditional blouses. But I'm not from Bulgaria, Albania, Serbia, etc. Neither are most of my ancestors. But I have such strong connections to the Balkan-American community, heritage can't change anything. Why worry about where your ancestors are from? Maybe think, where is your heart and home?
Here in iceland we have often done studies on genetics, and most of our results show that there's little to no difference from us and for example people from China. For example our Neanderthal percent here is the same as in South east Asia, really shows us how connected we are.
One thing I truly love about genetics tests is that you can explore the world through your genes, not that itd be much different if you went without knowing, but going to the areas that your ancestors could've been in is a feeling of itself. Tho with that given I despise when people say they are something when only a part of their blood is, yes you may have 15 precent Italian, but you're not necessarily culturally Italian, buuuut I don't let that annoy me much
Totally no differences between Nordic descendants in Iceland and Aborigines in Australia right?
@@commanderneyo7903 and Richard H Yes there are no big differences in our genetic code. If every human shares 99.9 % of the same DNA then this is a very minor difference. And most of this different DNA is not even doing anything (they do not code proteins). So the diffences are very shallow only "skin deep". And in the end we all stem from africa and share the same ancestors. Even when you dont like it, because you have made up your mind about people from different continents.
Have a nice day.
@@ottonormal5833 I don't like it because it's not true. A single SNP can be the difference between being healthy, or having a fatal abnormality. The genetic difference between being a man or a woman is just the tiny Y chromosome, and yet it results in profound differences, even when you don't like it!
Richard H As you write, an SNP can have great effects, but they are only “skin-deep” indeed. SNPs are not persistent. More than 90% of all human genetic variation is found in all parts of the world, even in sub-continental areas. The differences between humans are minuscule by any measure, whether you’re comparing individuals or populations.
@@theespatier4456 SNPs are not just 'skin-deep', I have no idea where you got that idea from. Less than 1% of your DNA determines whether you are male or female. So according to you pseudo-scientists, that means there is no real difference between a man and a woman, and we should just ignore it. Actually that probably is what your type believe...
This was great. Thank you. Answered some basic questions I had been struggling for ages to get clear answers to
I've always wanted to take one to see how native I am because I hear all the time that we're super native but it played no role in my up bringing and for a while I didn't know if I was native enough to have a right to list it as one of my ethnic backgrounds. Now I don't care. Ive been learning about the tribe that contributed the most to my family and I love what I've learned and I think even a drop of blood gives me the right to learn and be proud of the journey my genetics took to bring me here. As the world's people spread and realize we're all one race of human and love and procreate we will have more diversity in our ethnicity until we all have ten or more cultures behind us. We don't need to be pure blood to love our history and where our ancestors came from.
You better buckle up bub
Look at the map labels: East Asia, West Africa, and Europe. The specific East and West labels shows how limited this is as well.
Thank You for making this video.
talked to my mom and dad a few times in the past few days about an ancestry test and now this is in my recommended
This was an amazing collab with some of my favorite producers!
@Scott source: dude trust me
It can tell you if your going to jail or not
Useful, thx. Would suggest more editing like making it 4 min in the future
Thank you for this important information... most of us don't have much working knowledge of how genetics work and what that means for our lineage and the limitations of these different companies that are offering DNA testing etcetera. Also, I think it's important the reminder that these tests could reinforce, in a not positive way, concepts about race and identity and ethnicity... also, I've heard it said that that there can be people in your lineage that don't show up in your DNA testing because those chromosomes in your particular combination didn't come out and be revealed. How we've become separated, by and large, and, family histories, oral histories of families and communities have been lost. Also, a good reminder that, genetically speaking, we are all mostly the same.... we come out looking differently, speaking differently, believing differently and acting differently. These differences are precious and should be celebrated, remembering our true connectedness.
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Comparison of different populations "in the modern world". I needed to know that one, thanks.
Of course.. and by extrapolation ancestry as well...
The modern Sudanese are probably the closest genetic relative to who ever lived in Sudan 1000 or 2000 years ago...
Wanna have Fun: take a set of Twins, ask them to take tests from separate companies. Wait for results & have a good laugh 😉. Thank me if you publish that Video
They will have different dna. If your father is 2% Portuguese, one twin may receive 1.5% of it, while the other one may receive none.
@@BoraCM Identical twins have identical DNA.
Kasumi Rina It depends on the type of twins. Fraternal twins only share 50% of their DNA.
My daughter and my twin sister's son took DNA tests a couple of years apart, and so they showed up as half-siblings!
@@BoraCM identical twins are essentially the same person genetically.
This was very helpful for myself .thank you
for the record... its not a "guess" its an educated guess... big difference
Just a question, what does a sociologist have to do with DNA tests? I mean the field is relevant in a very broad sense but a geneticist would be much more educated in that topic of discussion
The field of Genetic Genealogy is not yet one that you can locate in (most) college directories; it is definitely not Cellular Micro-biology or Genomics. You go with people who are self-taught. The same thing was true about computer technology in my youth.
She's someone who would give Vox, which is a bad faith actor (loaded agenda), the sort of misleading commentary it desired.
@@miraclematthew716 my eyes rolled back so hard at that it actually kind of hurt 🙄
@@miraclematthew716 OK, then, what exactly did she say that was misleading? I'd also like to know how/why you think Vox is loaded. I don't like a lot of their videos, but I'd be interested in what you think.
Nothing. It's just propaganda.
I guess it's how we all interpreter them. I have always looked at the year to show just how connected we are and what makes us different is the culture we grew up in.
3:06 : "And this is where it get's complicated."
ohh boy....
Ehhh mines very accurate. It matches my family tree. One side of my family is white(English/Scottish) and one side is Mexican. The test said I have 34% British, .07% Scandinavian which is typical for British ancestry because of the Vikings, 9.9 % Broadly Northwest European which they can't pinpoint. I'm assuming that's probably more British. 28.4% Native American to Mexico. Then lists a group of states where my ancestors are from. The top 2 Jalisco and Nuevo Leon and those both match up with my family tree. 17.5 % Spanish.Then it gives me a 4% African, which is typical for Mexicans. Then 3% broadly European and 2.5% unassigned. Which all comes down to half white (English mainly) and half Mexican(indigenous mixed with Spanish and a little north African) and that's what I am.
I'm German/Portuguese/British and guess what mine came back saying...All three of those things with a touch of French mixed in. Mine also was very accurate.
Thomas Harrison which company did you use?
@@KK-jl8em I've used 23 and me, Ancestry DNA, and Living DNA. Ancestry was able to pinpoint my Basque ancestry while 23 and me didn't. 23 and me found the areas in the UK where my family is from though. They are both really good
Thomas Harrison I live in the U.S but I’m not from here, do you think it could trace back my ancestry anyways? And what would you recommend me?
@@KK-jl8em the above was my 23 and me. Ancestry runs your DNA over and over and then gives you the average ; what I like is that they show you your lowest range and your highest range. I'll use my England, Wales, and NW European as an example. They gave me an average of 55% (which is higher than 23 and me) and a range of 53%-58%. So on some tests i ranged as low as 53, as high as 58, and on others somewhere in between. They can't tell for sure if you're precisely 55%, but it is their best scientific guess and a really good range. If you noticed they combined English with North Western European. Because of all the Western European tribes roaming all over a long time ago, it can be difficult to pinpoint which country exactly. They then gave me 31% Native American with a range of 25-38. Then 7% Spain with a range of 0-7. Basque 2% with a range of 0-9. 5% of 3 different African countries. Ireland and Scotland at 1% with a range of 0-2%. Which was shocking to me because I always thought I had a heavy Irish background. But does make sense knowing my family tree now. Italy 1% with a range of 0-1. Which all comes up with English, Native, Spanish, Basque, a little African, traces of Irish/ Scottish and Italian.
So glad I didn’t do this. Was nearly obsessed about it for a while.
that was a very educational video. Thanks
I’m just a tad surprised that y’all didn’t even touch on the issues with things like 23 and Me’s disease reports.
I've been trying to explain to people this very issue, and I'm glad it's becoming more well known. These companies are relying on the misinformation that people are believing because it plays into the gimmick of the test to begin with. It doesn't tell you your genetic make up, just what you have in common with other people in different areas.
I'm more curious how things will/won't change when we can write our genes as well as read them.
I'm surprised at how high the uncertainty is. Hopefully results will become much more specific as the different reference databases become larger.
The question is why do you invite a Professor of Sociology but not genealogy in this interview?
I live in Wyoming....due to military assignment.
My wife and I can trace our individual family tree 5 generations back due to known family history.
She is Pacific Islander. I'm Caribbean.
We both did the DNA test to see how wrong it would be.
It actually pinpointed our places of origin exactly how we already knew them.
Dangic23 As more people test, the database gets sharper and sharper. This Vox report is BS.
Yep both of my parents are from poland and my father is a bit mixed with german and scandinavian and exactly that was the result in my dna test.
Maybe the percentages are not completely correct, but overall it really works and gives a good estimate I would say
So it can be used to make vectored viruses - bio-weapon illness that will target some races or even countries, or islands with big number of DNA-markers. You helped to fill bio-weapon production database.
@@roomempty343
US has been doing that on its own population for decades and decades.
I'm military, so my DNA was already taken.
But yes....you do have a point about the issue of giving away the personal DNA data.
So the take-home message is take the test if you're curious about your "heritage" but take the results with a pinch of salt. (So many "takes"!) :)
the accurate and objective interpretation of a study makes all the difference, this applies to any subject
Great info!!
i think it says clearly on 23andme website that it's genotyping not full-length sequencing, which makes sense since the majority of human DNA is regulatory elements or more of a house-keeping general purpose sequences, not like specific genes directly related to certain functions. And also because the majority of these sequences cannot be interpreted, genotyping is the best they can do. But I do agree that the ancestry percentage is a bit of stretch, and percentage below 1% or even 3% is probably not reliable and is therefore negligible.
Awesome Video Vox Team.
Very Informative Video.
Thanks for pointing out the privacy issues
Great video! It explains it well ...but why on earth would you get a sociologist to explain DNA? She seems far from a specialist
Tea Lynn Moore You can work with DNA and be a sociologist?
Actually, it explains it based upon a reversed engineered narrative.
Here's a real scientist debunking the VOX video
ruclips.net/video/IIWlatQt4KE/видео.html
Simple. the sociologist lady was talking about sample sizes and how inaccurate the data actually is since her whole thing is studying data , she didnt explain how genetics work. So there wasnt a need to bring in a geneticist
That kilt part made me lol
Way too much spit/spitting in this video. 🤢
At least they’re not spitting out tobacco...lol
Great video - thanks:)
thank you for this!