There are many companies performing these tests now including http://www.ancestrybydna.com, which is the company that analyzed my DNA. As a lightskinned African American with roots in the South and the implications of master-slave rapes and miscegeneation, some friends assumed and assured me that I must have some European ancestry. The test revealed that I am 95% African and about 5% East Asian. I was surprised by the Asian genes because there are no Asian people in my family that I know of....but it means that one of my great, great, great, greats could have been. There have been several documentaries on PBS that show people getting their DNA tested -- some of whom are very surprised by the results. I wonder if any of you were raised as one "race" but DNA test results revealed something you didn't know?
2006-07-30
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