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I tried explaining this to my family. The legal documents you have to agree to should be a huge red flag when all you get is "you are caucasian".
Yeah but I might be .05% native american and then I can get a cool eagle tattoo
"My name is no longer Brayden, it's Tanec Iak, meaning 'he who mines redstone'"
“Aww shit that means my great great great grandpappy raped some native girl. Better tell every native person I know about it!”
Raped some native girl and then... took custody of the child?
No, the other ancestors are all native American. Obviously the child stayed in the native to community.
If the child stayed in the native community wouldn't that imply that they would likely grow up to have a child with someone else in that community? And that their descendants would be more than half a percent native genetically?
Uhh yes, sorry. I had it the other way around. Perhaps a native american then raped/had child with a caucasian, who kept the child?
That's certainly a possibility, but it doesn't seem like the most likely explanation to me.
I was familiar with how their single-nucleotide polymorphism fingerprinting worked in principle when I submitted my sample. So, I was not surprised when my report indicated majority Native American (both my parents were born in the Navajo Nation).
As for preventing misuse of the genetic profile 23andMe built, the primary legal protection is the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA) which prohibits insurance providers and employers from discriminating against patients and employees based upon disorders that are correlated with their genetic information. I believe it is prudent for people to examine their own genetic information in detail. I believe the legal protection GINA offers is sufficient for SNP profiling. I also believe as genetic profiling technology improves, the principles of non-discrimination set by GINA should be peotected with additional legislation.
Gina
If you were the real Sprog, this correction would have been more poetic.
'Gyna