Thursday, July 4, 2024

Hacked DNA Results


Well, although it's so small that it wasn't included with their DNA Origins or Ethnicity estimates, our Haitian parent did possess trace amounts of  Indigenous Americas ancestry. At only 0.26%, it could be an error or perhaps some remnant of very distant indigenous origins. It was likely Taino or indigenous Caribbean, but the algorithm used by Ancestry labelled it as Bolivia & Peru. For what it's worth, a few of the DNA matches from the same part of Haiti also had trace Indigenous Americas ancestry, but closer to 1% or sometimes slightly higher. So, overall, the Haitian is overwhelmingly of African origin but sometimes with significant French or European ancestry. None of this is surprising, although I do wonder why some geneticists reported our part of Haiti as having an oral tradition of native ancestry.

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