{"id":62179,"date":"2021-11-11T20:23:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T20:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62179"},"modified":"2021-11-11T20:23:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T20:23:48","slug":"what-can-dna-tests-really-tell-us-about-our-ancestry-prosanta-chakrabarty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62179","title":{"rendered":"What can DNA tests really tell us about our ancestry? &#8211; Prosanta Chakrabarty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YiydsMxOdM8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>What can DNA tests really tell us about our ancestry? &#8211; Prosanta Chakrabarty<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCsooa4yRKGN_zEE8iknghZA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TED-Ed<\/a><br \/>\n2020-06-09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prosanta.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Prosanta Chakrabarty<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Ichthyology, Evolution and Systematics<br \/>\n<em>Louisiana State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Directed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artrake.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Artrake Studio<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YiydsMxOdM8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dig into the science of how <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genealogical_DNA_test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ancestry DNA tests<\/a> work, their accuracy, and why tracing ancestry is so complicated.<\/p>\n<p>Two sisters take the same DNA test. The results show that one sister is 10% French, the other 0%. Both sisters share the same two parents, and therefore the same set of ancestors. So how can one be 10% more French than the other? Tests like these rely on our <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DNA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DNA<\/a> to answer questions about our ancestry, but DNA actually can\u2019t tell us everything. Prosanta Chakrabarty explores the accuracy of DNA tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dig into the science of how ancestry DNA tests work, their accuracy, and why tracing ancestry is so complicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039,8,842],"tags":[32335,32338,32337,32336],"class_list":["post-62179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-videos","tag-artrake-studio","tag-genealogical-dna-test","tag-prosanta-chakrabarty","tag-ted-ed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62179","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=62179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62181,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62179\/revisions\/62181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}