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   Richard Smith to real_grizz_adams@yahoo.co.uk   
   Re: DNA   
   24 Jun 20 20:28:36   
   
   From: richard@ex-parrot.com   
      
   On 19/06/2020 11:31, real_grizz_adams@yahoo.co.uk wrote:   
      
   > I did see a post (not sure where now so make your own mind up) of a pair of   
   > twins (maybe identical can't remember) who sent seperate samples to one of   
   > these sites and got totally different reports back (One was said to be   
   Northern   
   > European / Native American the other Mediterranean / Oriental)   
      
   I think either the story has become exaggerated or it's from quite a   
   long time ago.  These days, these ethnic origins reports tend to be   
   accurate to within, say, 5% at a continent level.  I really wouldn't   
   expect one twin to show a non-trivial amount of Oriental ancestry where   
   the other twin's shows none and instead finds a non-trivial amount of   
   Native American ancestry, at least not if the test was done in the last   
   few years.  But I could easily imagine one showing substantial French   
   ancestry where the other says German, ore trace amounts of all sorts of   
   bizarre things.   
      
   Richard   
      
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