And the Story gets better, Duff you shit the bed on this one.
Elizabeth Warren?s DNA match is to Latin Americans, not Native Americans
Washington Examiner ^ | October 15, 2018 10:03 PM| Steven Nelson
Posted on 10/15/2018 11:08:45 PM by E. Pluribus Unum
The genetics researcher who reviewed Sen. Elizabeth Warren's, D-Mass., DNA in an attempt to counter President Trump's "Pocahontas" jibes compared her samples with those from people in Colombia, Mexico, and Peru rather than Native Americans in the U.S.
Warren's DNA was reviewed at her request by Carlos Bustamante, a Stanford University genetics researcher, who compared it to reference samples and reported that he had found a Native American ancestor "approximately 8 generations" ago.
Bustamante, however, didn't compare Warren's DNA against Native Americans who live in the continental U.S., citing cultural reluctance to submit to DNA tests. Instead, he used recent samples from other countries whose populations presumably share a lineage during human settlement of the Americas about 15,000-25,000 years ago.
Warren's attempt to rebut the long-ridiculed claim, which was accompanied by a slickly produced television ad, appeared to be a move calculated to clear the way for a 2020 presidential bid. But it may backfire by adding confusion and controversy.
Some genealogical researchers point to limitations in both science and social meaning of the test results, which seem unlikely to prevent political attacks that Warren falsely claimed to be an ethnic minority to become a Harvard University professor.
Academic skeptics point out the murky nature of DNA reference samples, and others argue that even if Warren has a native ancestor, that doesn't make her an American Indian in a cultural or political sense, or validate past claims of Cherokee ancestry.
Bustamante used DNA reference samples from the 1000 Genomes Project, an international effort that recorded samples from people around the world. He wrote that the strongest proof of indigenous ancestry could be found along Chromosome 10.
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