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|    Re: DNA Tests? HOW accurate are the spit    |
|    15 Sep 25 17:56:51    |
      XPost: alt.paranormal, alt.atheism, alt.conspiracy       XPost: alt.religion.christian       From: f00@0f0.00f              None wrote:       > On Sep 12, 2025, None wrote       > (Message-ID: <10a2usm$5del$4@dont-email.me>):       >       >> On Sep 12, 2025, Dawn Flood wrote       >> (Message-ID: <10a2dt4$3cj$1@dont-email.me>):       >>       >>> On 9/12/2025 3:47 PM, Andrew wrote:       >>>> "Dawn Flood" wrote in message news:109vgq9$2vl7u$1@dont-email.me...       >>>>> Andrew wrote:       >>>>>> "Dawn Flood" wrote:       >>>>>>> Andrew wrote:       >>>       >>> That the origins of all human beings can be traced back to Africa, which       >>> is where the first modern humans arose.       >>       >> That is a total rewrite of Human history, migratory patterns, etc, even DNA       >> disproves that thinking. And so does the DNA and genomes of chimps and       >> humans.       >       > Off topic for this thread and denoted why in the subject.       > We have all been conned. Using scientific explanations to support the con.       >       > Just read this as it was part of an article.       >       > "Cosimo Posth, an archaeogenetics expert at the University of Tübingen, in       > Germany, and colleagues described the genomes of ten different individuals       > who lived in three key regions: Siberia’s Altai Mountains, the Kamchatka       > Peninsula and other parts of the Russian Far East. Environmental       > conditions—cold climates at high latitudes—allowed for optimal       > preservation of DNA that was hundreds to thousands of years old. “In these       > environments you can find individuals with 70 to 80 percent of human DNA in       > their bones, comparable to what you’d get if you extracted saliva from you       > or me,” says Posth. “You can actually generate a genome of the same       > quality as a modern genome. It’s amazing stuff.”"       >       > If this be true then the tests are missing 20-30% of the info From saliva       > tests. So all may not be as it seems. It is only a test of a likelihood a       > best guess type of thing. Compound that with the spit tests of a husband and       > wife and that can compound the error significantly and a good statistician       > will confirm that. Yeah, science is end all be all. Who are ya gonna believe?       >              you can give another fluid, that is whiteish. that's 100%..       actually you have meiosis there, so there would be slight genetic       variation. anyway, i think 100% dna can be gatehered from spit.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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