{"id":55084,"date":"2017-11-07T23:10:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T23:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55084"},"modified":"2017-11-07T23:10:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T23:10:02","slug":"dna-tests-for-ethnicity-are-entertainment-value-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55084","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDNA tests for ethnicity are entertainment value only,\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><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 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genetic_testing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DNA tests<\/a> 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 nucleotide\u201d for race.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55080\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Woman takes 2 ancestry tests, gets 2 wildly different results<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Grio<\/em>, November 4, 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/thegrio.com\/2017\/11\/03\/woman-dna-tests-ancestry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/thegrio.com\/2017\/11\/03\/woman-dna-tests-ancestry\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Gilliland, 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 DNA marker or \u201cdiagnostic nucleotide\u201d for race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27589,3999,27586],"class_list":["post-55084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-dna-tests","tag-the-grio","tag-william-gilliland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55084","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=55084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55086,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55084\/revisions\/55086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}