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Old 04-29-2018, 05:38 PM
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Originally Posted by billethkid View Post
Is the DNA testing more of an is-like comparison i.e. yours is like all these others and here is what we know about them VS specific familial derivations?
This is what you get from Ancestry.com. AncestrySupport

When you submit a sample, we compare the data from your 700,000 markers to population data from more than 350 global regions and create a breakdown of your ethnicity by percentage.
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