“Pocahontas” and her alleged Native American heritage, (a worthless DNA test)

Posted by $ Olduglycarl 7 years, 1 month ago to Science
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"But as it turned out, the Globe issued a correction updating the results to show Warren’s Native American ancestry is actually 1/1024."

No reliable Cherokee DNA markers: here is why: https://www.accessgenealogy.com/nativ...

It's a lengthy read. Basically, there is way too much mixing of DNA, nothing specifically Cherokee, in fact, they share more with the Jews but DNA tests, for the many tribes in North America have strong similarities with tribes in Mexico, Central America and South America; so Pocahontas is probably no more indian than you or I. The Cherokee were "Slave Raiders" and plundered many tribes and are probably more mixed than other North America Tribes.


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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 7 years ago in reply to this comment.
    How about if your grandmother (paternal) was full-blood American Indian. Eat your heart out Pocahontas Warren! Makes me 1/4th!
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 7 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Thinking about it, I don't think DNA goes that far? I know my family heritage and all it says on two different lab tests is '100% Western European.' She's obviously a nut!
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 7 years, 1 month ago
    Is she claiming her DNA from her mother's side of the family?
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 7 years, 1 month ago
    I reviewed a Federal Grant once for the Absentee Shawnee Tribe located in Oklahoma. They had opened their membership to 1/64th! But over a thousand...get a life. Even to rebuild the tribe, they only went to 1/64th!
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    But in 2016, the deplorables were fed up with thinly veiled dishonesty and propaganda. Warren is deep down a very evil witch and it’s showing thru like it did with Hillary. I am thinking she is through
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  • Posted by LibertyBelle 7 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Well, I hope you're right. But considering what the American voters did in 2008 and 2012; and what they did in 1936, 1940, and 1944...
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  • Posted by $ kddr22 7 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    “Denisovan” after the cave where the pinkie bone was found. The Denisovan genome also suggests the young girl had brown hair, eyes, and skin.

    Surprisingly, the scientists found genetic overlap between the Denisovan genome and that of some present-day east Asians, and, in particular, a group of Pacific Islanders living in Papua New Guinea, known as the Melanesians. It appears the Denisovans contributed between 3 to 5 percent of their genetic material to the genomes of Melanesians. Scientists think that the most likely explanation is that Denisovans living in eastern Eurasia interbred with the modern human ancestors of Melanesians. When those humans crossed the ocean to reach Papua New Guinea around 45,000 years ago, they brought their Denisovan DNA over with them.

    If this genetic mixing did occur, the fact that Denisovans were discovered in Siberia but contributed to the genomes of modern humans living in Southeast Asia suggests the species ranged widely across Asia, although their low genetic diversity also indicates their numbers were never very high.
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes.
    Tried to look up "Devosian" only gave me devonian which is a period in history of mass extinction...did you spell it correctly?
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  • Posted by $ kddr22 7 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    yes probably lol. Also by the testing I had 2 % Neanderthal and 2% devosian which is a higher % than she had of maybe native American
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Are you to short to see in the mirror? (maybe that is why you can't see it?)...laughing...aborigines are short people.
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  • Posted by fivedollargold 7 years, 1 month ago
    By Squaw Warren's standards, most European-Americans could qualify as Neanderthals. Full disclosure: $5Au has ~4% Neanderthal DNA.
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, Solver, perhaps it was another book written later that included this letter and others, that I read about.
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    The left can not read, or at least has no clue how little 1024th represents...and it's not even Cherokee!
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    There was some documentation in a book, (I have forgotten) about many of the Indian tribes Columbus tried to trade with were cannibalistic, especially on the Islands in the gulf.
    Columbus gets blamed for what the Spanish Solders did but in one instance, he arrives back to one tribe to retrieve his men, (on a trading mission), only to find their eyes gouged out.
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    My Fathers side came to Boston in the late 1890s from Sweden...my mothers side claim decedents of President Taft through his son's marriage to the daughter of Webster...My mother was a drunk...and although I would be honored to be related to Daniel Webster...I would be embarrassed to be related to Taft, a dummy and decedent of the Black [ig]nobility of Venice.
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  • Posted by oldtk 7 years, 1 month ago
    The woman is seriously off if she thinks she os corroborating he previous claim to be a recent descendant of native Americans. It's just too funny and good for us conservatives. Making Trump look good, that's what I'd call it!!
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 7 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    The Comanche did not give themselves that name. It's Hopi for "those who attack us." They were fierce horse warriors, and the American equivalent of the Mongol hordes, raiding and destroying other tribes.
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