“It can’t give you certainty,” he said. “If the database included everyone in the world, it could give you that certainty.”
He said African Ancestry oversells its tests because it allows its customers to believe that it can tell them what tribe their ancestors came from.
Paige disagrees with Greely’s assessment, “When we find someone with the same exact mitochondrial DNA sequence, they share
the same maternal ancestry, and that is a scientific fact.”
— This article originally appeared in the Post-Courier. (Charleston, S.C.)
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