Is it pointless for an direct Black African to do a DNA test?

[JadeB]

Bump

 

[GodinDaFlesh]

It's good to discover long lost relatives in the diaspora

 

[generic-username]

I am a real African. Nigerian to be specific and I took it. Turns out I am 94% Nigerian and 5% Cameroon.

However what surprised me is that I have 3rd, 4th cousins who are Black Americans and Caribbeans. Turns out my families ancestral home isn't where my ancestors originally lived. Apparently they had to move to a different location because slave raiders were a huge problem. So my guess is some of my ancestors got kidnapped and were brought over to the New World.

 

[concise]

Of course not.

The more data points you hand over, the better the DNA database becomes.

We will find you: DNA search used to nab Golden State Killer can home in on about 60% of white Americans

If you’re white, live in the United States, and a distant relative has uploaded their DNA to a public ancestry database, there’s a good chance an internet sleuth can identify you from a DNA sample you left somewhere. That’s the conclusion of a new study, which finds that by combining an anonymous DNA sample with some basic information such as someone’s rough age, researchers could narrow that person’s identity to fewer than 20 people by starting with a DNA database of 1.3 million individuals.

Such a search could potentially allow the identification of about 60% of white Americans from a DNA sample—even if they have never provided their own DNA to an ancestry database. “In a few years, it’s really going to be everyone,” says study leader Yaniv Erlich, a computational geneticist at Columbia University.

in 2018, when the article was written, 60 percent of whites could be ID'd by a distant relative compared to 40 percent of blacks.

 

[JadeB]

Of course not.

The more data points you hand over, the better the DNA database becomes.

We will find you: DNA search used to nab Golden State Killer can home in on about 60% of white Americans



in 2018, when the article was written, 60 percent of whites could be ID'd by a distant relative compared to 40 percent of blacks.

Whites love incest


But in a serious note, I want to seriously take it now since it helps New World Black people find their long lost relatives.

 

[The Fade]

I mean if your family didn’t archive your or record your family line

 

[Music Fiend]

I would never get a DNA test personally.

Not paying someone money and having my DNA in a database just for them to tell me something I already know

There's a lot you don't know actually. For example, there's plenty of ppl who find out their father's aren't their real fathers. Especially with ppl who are 1st generation out of immigration

Plenty of family will tell stories, like your great grandfather did xyz. But it can be interesting especially if you got fam still in your native country. You might have 3/4 cousins you never knew about that are very close to where you are.

 

[Problematic Pat]

I want to do one myself one day but judging from all the all the other West Africans who did these tests, they seem kind of obvious.

Your distant diaspora fam can find you that way.

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

Anyone with common sense not doing this shyt. And the main reasons are, they not fully accurate and still working to get better as more people dna are in the database. They tell you this themselves. So why the fukk would you do the shyt? Also, and the most important reason, you got to be a naive mothafukka to give your dna to some cac companies like this. I’m not even a big conspiracy theorist or anything but all kind of shyt can go wrong from that in the short and long term. And that’s not to say I believe without a doubt some nefarious shyt will go on. But if you know the history of humans in general, and especially white people, and especially white people in regards to black people, you know anything is possible.

 

[concise]

Whites love incest


But in a serious note, I want to seriously take it now since it helps New World Black people find their long lost relatives.

It's not about incest, a higher percentage of them have given their DNA to these companies, higher than black people.