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I am very new to all of this DNA stuff. Recently, I got my DNA results back from Ancestry.com and there were a few surprises in the low confidence regions section.
How valid are these percentages? I am not expecting much credibility from the <1% results. How reliable/valid are the results in the 2-5% range? None of these results can be traced to any known relatives from the past 150 years. Would uploading the raw data to GEDMatch provide more information regarding ethnicity? I'm not interested in finding distant family members.
They are not accurate at all. In fact, most of those companies have no interest in refining results. They want your DNA, that's all. Now that they have it they will sell it to drug companies, who will develop drugs, or they will sell it to anyone else they please, like law enforcement. You should not go around believing you have had a DNA analysis for $100. https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...he-fda-thinks/
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The Personal Genome Service isn’t primarily intended to be a medical device. It is a mechanism meant to be a front end for a massive information-gathering operation against an unwitting public.
So ask yourself: What other information have you given them.....?
Read the article. The founder of 23andme is (was) married to the founder of Google, who makes a fortune by selling information mined from your computer.
If someone can figure out my medical problems on a genetic level, more power to them. My kids and I are already participating in medical studies and not anonymously, with full consent. Columbia U. already has my samples. I guess I can add more by trying DNA Land. But I didn't test with 23 and Me and that was not my primary purpose. It was just for fun. Ancestry found a few family matches that were spot on. I had no idea they were in their data base. Most of the low confidence results seem plausible, except for two of them.
I don't agree with you. My results are very similar at Ancestry, DNALand, Wegene, Gedmatch and FTDNA. My results from MyHeritage are out of range, and not accurate, apparently their data base is very limited because is a new company.
It is irrelevant whether you agree with me or not. Your experience doesn't negate the fact that many other people have gotten significantly different results from different companies. In fact as you said above, the results you got from MyHeritage were significantly different from what the other companies reported and stands as evidence that my previous statement is correct.
Take a look at the ranges around all of the estimates. Bottom line, there's not a lot of certainty to any of the ethnicity report. For all of mine less than 10%, the bottom end of the range is 0%, suggesting those may just be noise.
Ancestry has a pretty good explanation at https://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/...ity-estimate//"The next level includes Low Confidence Regions. For each of these regions, the possible range includes 0% and does not exceed 15%. Since there is only a small amount of evidence of genetic ethnicity from these regions, it is possible that you may not have genetic ethnicity from them at all."
My sister and I both took the AncestryDNA test. The DNA results themselves correctly confirmed a sibling relationship, but our ethnicity estimates varied significantly. That reflects the differences in the DNA between siblings. Perhaps, if you have 5 or 6 siblings, you may be able to reach better conclusions if everyone tests and then try to merge the results in some fashion. The results are interesting, but I don't put much credence in them, beyond the top couple ethnicity percentages.
Take a look at the ranges around all of the estimates. Bottom line, there's not a lot of certainty to any of the ethnicity report. For all of mine less than 10%, the bottom end of the range is 0%, suggesting those may just be noise.
Ancestry has a pretty good explanation at https://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/...ity-estimate//"The next level includes Low Confidence Regions. For each of these regions, the possible range includes 0% and does not exceed 15%. Since there is only a small amount of evidence of genetic ethnicity from these regions, it is possible that you may not have genetic ethnicity from them at all."
My sister and I both took the AncestryDNA test. The DNA results themselves correctly confirmed a sibling relationship, but our ethnicity estimates varied significantly. That reflects the differences in the DNA between siblings. Perhaps, if you have 5 or 6 siblings, you may be able to reach better conclusions if everyone tests and then try to merge the results in some fashion. The results are interesting, but I don't put much credence in them, beyond the top couple ethnicity percentages.
Your sisters and brothers are not a "copy" of you. Even twins brothers and twin sisters are not 100% similar to each other, the only humans similar to each others are "clones". And I don't think any laboratory out there is making human clones.
If someone can figure out my medical problems on a genetic level, more power to them. My kids and I are already participating in medical studies and not anonymously, with full consent. Columbia U. already has my samples. I guess I can add more by trying DNA Land. But I didn't test with 23 and Me and that was not my primary purpose. It was just for fun. Ancestry found a few family matches that were spot on. I had no idea they were in their data base. Most of the low confidence results seem plausible, except for two of them.
Invitae is the leader in actual DNA analysis. They are part of the medical community, and bound by medical standards. They retain your records forever, so if your children need more information 50 years from now, it will be available.
They are not accurate at all. In fact, most of those companies have no interest in refining results. They want your DNA, that's all. Now that they have it they will sell it to drug companies, who will develop drugs, or they will sell it to anyone else they please, like law enforcement. You should not go around believing you have had a DNA analysis for $100. https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...he-fda-thinks/
So ask yourself: What other information have you given them.....?
Read the article. The founder of 23andme is (was) married to the founder of Google, who makes a fortune by selling information mined from your computer.
What do you mean by "accurate"? The DNA test is accurate. If you test with one of the genealogy services and it gives you a list of people who share part of your DNA, you are related by blood to those people. You share ancestors somewhere in the last few hundred years.
Medical testing also identifies specific genes associated with certain traits or health conditions. The FDA did not ever say that the health test at 23andMe were inaccurate. They contested the direct to consumer marketing aspect and the fact that 23andMe did not follow FDA guidelines.
23andMe asks for permission to use your DNA results for research, and what they are doing is contributing to the genetic knowledge base about many diseases. You may opt out if you wish to and have them destroy your saliva sample.
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It is irrelevant whether you agree with me or not. Your experience doesn't negate the fact that many other people have gotten significantly different results from different companies. In fact as you said above, the results you got from MyHeritage were significantly different from what the other companies reported and stands as evidence that my previous statement is correct.
Differences happen due to differences in the databases for different companies and differences in how they categorize their findings. People really hope that DNA will pinpoint which village in Italy their fourth great grandparents came from. It cannot do that.
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