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**Quiniacab** · 05-29-2012, 01:58 PM

Then why they included African and Asian samples if it was only intended to Euros and US Whites?Why didn't they only had Euro samples?

Europeans have to be compared against someone, right? Genetic analysis is based on comparison between various peoples. Africans -- the most genetically diverse population on Earth -- are a lot more heterogeneous than 23andme captures them to be. You have to recall that the company has the Yoruba representing all of African diversity. That is already a major issue. And no, I'm not being an Afrocentrist or anything. I am just pointing out a fair issue. Same goes with the lack of Amerind samples and the deviations we saw in quite a few Latin American results, too.

05-29-2012, 01:58 PM	#11
Quiniacab Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 509 Senior Member	Then why they included African and Asian samples if it was only intended to Euros and US Whites?Why didn't they only had Euro samples? Europeans have to be compared against someone, right? Genetic analysis is based on comparison between various peoples. Africans -- the most genetically diverse population on Earth -- are a lot more heterogeneous than 23andme captures them to be. You have to recall that the company has the Yoruba representing all of African diversity. That is already a major issue. And no, I'm not being an Afrocentrist or anything. I am just pointing out a fair issue. Same goes with the lack of Amerind samples and the deviations we saw in quite a few Latin American results, too.
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