{"id":55080,"date":"2017-11-07T22:50:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T22:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55080"},"modified":"2017-11-07T23:07:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T23:07:37","slug":"woman-takes-2-ancestry-tests-gets-2-wildly-different-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55080","title":{"rendered":"Woman takes 2 ancestry tests, gets 2 wildly different results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegrio.com\/2017\/11\/03\/woman-dna-tests-ancestry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Woman takes 2 ancestry tests, gets 2 wildly different results<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegrio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Grio<\/a><br \/>\n2017-11-03<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegrio.com\/2017\/11\/03\/woman-dna-tests-ancestry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/thegrio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jennifer-smith.jpg?w=547\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago_metropolitan_area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago-area<\/a> woman wanted to test the accuracy of the popular <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genetic_testing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DNA tests<\/a> that are supposed to find your family history, but when she mailed away her DNA, the results she got were vastly different from each other.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Smith was interested in her family ancestry, so she tried out a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DNA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DNA<\/a> kit from Ancestry.com, but was shocked when her breakdown showed that she was 97 percent European and 2 percent Asian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a Black girl; I am not a Jewish white lady,\u201d Smith told Fox32 Chicago, recalling her utter confusion at her results&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/csh.depaul.edu\/faculty-staff\/faculty-a-z\/Pages\/biological-sciences\/william-gilliland.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">William Gilliland<\/a>, an associate biology professor at Depaul University, explained that \u201cDNA tests for ethnicity are entertainment value only,\u201d noting that while DNA tests can connect you to family members, there is no solid <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genetic_marker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DNA marker<\/a> or \u201cdiagnostic <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nucleotide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nucleotide<\/a>\u201d for race&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/thegrio.com\/2017\/11\/03\/woman-dna-tests-ancestry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chicago-area woman wanted to test the accuracy of the popular DNA tests that are supposed to find your family history, but when she mailed away her DNA, the results she got were vastly different from each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8,20],"tags":[18815,11431,27587,27585,3999,27586],"class_list":["post-55080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-23andme","tag-ancestry-com","tag-fox32-chicago","tag-jennifer-smith","tag-the-grio","tag-william-gilliland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55085,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55080\/revisions\/55085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}