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Medic Kim
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EMT, veteran, ex-nuclear reactor operator & former genetics researcher. A wandering Texan who loves Minnesota, science, brisket, & @SleepyNeutrons. She/her
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I am constantly explaining that ancestry kits are not even in the same league as GWAS or medical genetic testing & this thread is now saved in my phone for future reference 🔥🔥🔥

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While this paper is about a different phenomenon (the *reception* of genetic ancestry information among white supremacist communities), both the authors and the people they're studying display an extremely common misunderstanding of what genetic ancestry testing (GAT) is actually measuring.

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MKmedickimw.bsky.social

Part of the issue with commercially available kits are the software “binning” of SNPs that lead to the 1% “Ethnicity” result & how that leads to the misinterpretation that @rahaeli.bsky.social references.

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Medic Kim
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EMT, veteran, ex-nuclear reactor operator & former genetics researcher. A wandering Texan who loves Minnesota, science, brisket, & @SleepyNeutrons. She/her
498 followers61 following95 posts
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