Thread: A Hero Comes Along (Finally!)

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

These DNA tests are fucking rubbish.

They sent identical twins samples as a test and labs came back with completely different results for the two.

When it was pointed out they said "well it's not an exact science".

...*cough*...link?

Originally Posted by tomcat

...*cough*...link?

Well this isn't a news thread, but since it's you...

And sorry, it's worse than I said, he called it "Art"!

Dr. Paul Maier, population geneticist at FamilyTreeDNA, acknowledges that identifying genetic distinctions in people from different places is a challenge.
"Finding the boundaries is itself kind of a frontiering science, so I would say that makes it kind of a science and an art," Maier said in a phone interview.

Twins get some '''mystifying''' results when they put 5 DNA ancestry kits to the test | CBC News