Last spring, Marketplace host Charlsie Agro and her twin sister, Carly, bought home kits from AncestryDNA, MyHeritage, 23andMe, FamilyTreeDNA and Living DNA, and mailed samples of their DNA to each company for analysis.
Despite having virtually identical DNA, the twins did not receive matching results from any of the companies.
In most cases, the results from the same company traced each sister's ancestry to the same parts of the world — albeit by varying percentages.
But the results from California-based 23andMe seemed to suggest each twin had unique twists in their ancestry composition.
If you can't be a good example, you can still serve as a horrible warning.
“All mushrooms are edible. Some even more than once!”
これを グーグル 翻訳に登録してくれておめでとう、バカ。
I did Ancestry and NatGeo. Ancestry linked me to my parents, linked my kids to me.
You might think they used other methods to link us, but we know 4 adopted people who've been linked to at least one birth parent.
Evvanrenea wrote: ↑Sat Jan 19, 2019 9:04 pm
Are they identical twins?
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One set of identical twins, two different ancestry profiles.
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Despite having virtually identical DNA, the twins did not receive matching results from any of the companies.
If you can't be a good example, you can still serve as a horrible warning.
“All mushrooms are edible. Some even more than once!”
これを グーグル 翻訳に登録してくれておめでとう、バカ。
I read where a police agency sent DNA to bunch of those companies posing as customers. Got a hit back with a near match. Then filed subpoena for a legal search.
Been so long ago I read it I don't remember if it was a news story or fiction.
captquint wrote: ↑Sat Jan 19, 2019 9:18 pm
The family bought dna kits for everyone, I declined to send my dna to a company
Afraid it would show 23.9% Neanderthal?
No, I'm quite sure of my ancestry as I know it pretty far back, I'm just leaving open the option of being a serial killer later in life
Good to hear you can trace back 100,000 years plus. Better than most. Can imagine if Biker took this test, get the results back with one word- "Amoeba".
Antknot wrote: ↑Sat Jan 19, 2019 9:43 pm
I read where a police agency sent DNA to bunch of those companies posing as customers. Got a hit back with a near match. Then filed subpoena for a legal search.
Been so long ago I read it I don't remember if it was a news story or fiction.
captquint wrote: ↑Sat Jan 19, 2019 9:18 pm
The family bought dna kits for everyone, I declined to send my dna to a company
Afraid it would show 23.9% Neanderthal?
No, I'm quite sure of my ancestry as I know it pretty far back, I'm just leaving open the option of being a serial killer later in life
Good to hear you can trace back 100,000 years plus. Better than most. Can imagine if Biker took this test, get the results back with one word- "Amoeba".
Mid 1800's was ok with me, not really interested in anymore than that. Not whole lot of written records 100,000 years ago
Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk
captquint wrote: ↑Sat Jan 19, 2019 9:18 pm
The family bought dna kits for everyone, I declined to send my dna to a company
Afraid it would show 23.9% Neanderthal?
No, I'm quite sure of my ancestry as I know it pretty far back, I'm just leaving open the option of being a serial killer later in life
Good to hear you can trace back 100,000 years plus. Better than most. Can imagine if Biker took this test, get the results back with one word- "Amoeba".
captquint wrote: ↑Sat Jan 19, 2019 9:18 pm
The family bought dna kits for everyone, I declined to send my dna to a company
Afraid it would show 23.9% Neanderthal?
No, I'm quite sure of my ancestry as I know it pretty far back, I'm just leaving open the option of being a serial killer later in life
Good to hear you can trace back 100,000 years plus. Better than most. Can imagine if Biker took this test, get the results back with one word- "Amoeba".
Mine was pretty straightforward; mostly Iberian Peninsula and Scandinavian. There was some British Isles and Italian in there too but I suspect it was anomaly
captquint wrote: ↑Sat Jan 19, 2019 9:18 pm
The family bought dna kits for everyone, I declined to send my dna to a company
Afraid it would show 23.9% Neanderthal?
No, I'm quite sure of my ancestry as I know it pretty far back, I'm just leaving open the option of being a serial killer later in life
Good to hear you can trace back 100,000 years plus. Better than most. Can imagine if Biker took this test, get the results back with one word- "Amoeba".
Mid 1800's was ok with me, not really interested in anymore than that. Not whole lot of written records 100,000 years ago
I actually don't need to take a test to know my history. By a stroke of good fortune, I know my exact ancestors history entry into the New World. 1680's- From England. Maryland- E Chesapeake county. The records (arrival, marriages, deaths, births, etc) are all still surviving in the original county courthouse. I have all the photocopied originals that were researched by family members back in the 1930's. Some went back in the 70's, still there and in good shape. Entire documented family history from 1680's to the present. My Dad was named for the original man that stepped on shore. I would love to do some research in England and see how far back I could go.
I bet the third party sources these DNA companies sell their data too got more accurate results than the ones these twins got.
“The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither, the society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great deal of both.” --Milton Friedman
deadpetals wrote: ↑Sun Jan 20, 2019 12:00 am
I did mine in January 2018 to see if the man I thought was my bio father.
He was not. It sent me into a very bad place all of 2018. I don't think I'll ever know and now I kind of don't wanna know. Sometimes it's fucking heartbreaking.
deadpetals wrote: ↑Sun Jan 20, 2019 12:05 am
Of course lol. Did i word it weird. For my whole life there's been question. Finally I brought it up. He literally drove up here and we did it in person and had the results 3 days later. I was really very upset. He's the only man I ever pictured as my dad. And it turns out my mom wasn't the best historian thanks to being a "hippy man, free love, acid"
Sorry to hear that, DP.
I know a guy who was in his late 40's when he found out his bio-dad wasn't his bio-dad. It fucked him up pretty good.
Best of luck to you. Any chance you can track down your real father?
deadpetals wrote: ↑Sun Jan 20, 2019 12:17 am
Thanks I could try the 23 and me thing to look for other relatives, but I heard one name from the man who was not my dad, but he told me that man had died; however he did tell me that man had a daughter who looked an awful lot like me.
Idk, the hurt and heartbreak and uncertainty that came from the previous test, I just don't know if it's worth it or if I should just move on. Sometimes I like to pretend that my dad was some rock star that my mom hooked up with. Or maybe an astronaut who knows?
I can relate to your pain. My younger sister is the result of an affair my mother had while my parents were still married. My sister doesn't know and I hope she never finds out. I'm the only one left alive in the family that knows and I'll take it to my grave. But it's been a heavy burden for a long time.
deadpetals wrote: ↑Sun Jan 20, 2019 12:05 am
Of course lol. Did i word it weird. For my whole life there's been question. Finally I brought it up. He literally drove up here and we did it in person and had the results 3 days later. I was really very upset. He's the only man I ever pictured as my dad. And it turns out my mom wasn't the best historian thanks to being a "hippy man, free love, acid"
I would hope that if one of my daughters was found to not be my biological daughter, they would recognize that I'm the only dad that matters.
deadpetals wrote: ↑Sun Jan 20, 2019 12:05 am
Of course lol. Did i word it weird. For my whole life there's been question. Finally I brought it up. He literally drove up here and we did it in person and had the results 3 days later. I was really very upset. He's the only man I ever pictured as my dad. And it turns out my mom wasn't the best historian thanks to being a "hippy man, free love, acid"
I would hope that if one of my daughters was found to not be my biological daughter, they would recognize that I'm the only dad that matters.
deadpetals wrote: ↑Sun Jan 20, 2019 12:05 am
Of course lol. Did i word it weird. For my whole life there's been question. Finally I brought it up. He literally drove up here and we did it in person and had the results 3 days later. I was really very upset. He's the only man I ever pictured as my dad. And it turns out my mom wasn't the best historian thanks to being a "hippy man, free love, acid"
I would hope that if one of my daughters was found to not be my biological daughter, they would recognize that I'm the only dad that matters.
Well they already bought you all those socks.........
Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk
captquint wrote: ↑Sat Jan 19, 2019 11:41 pm
You see Junior, when the first Justices arrived on the shores of Texas, they all had a sixth sense.
But Daddy, that ain't even a dime.
Oh, my side of the Family gets even more interesting. After the US Louisiana Purchase, in the 1820's my side moved moved to and purchased 10,000 acres around Bastrop in extreme N LA to farm "wait for it" cotton. The "I swear totally consensual" workers worked happily 345 days a year under the broiling sun singing happy songs to their "ahem" employer. Sent most down "voluntarily of course" river in the 1830's to New Orleans and hauled upriver lumber to build the plantation. Still standing in the 1960's when I saw it last. I want my Reparations for having to go through my White Privilege guilt.
I could try the 23 and me thing to look for other relatives, but I heard one name from the man who was not my dad, but he told me that man had died; however he did tell me that man had a daughter who looked an awful lot like me.