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Total noob here concerning genetics.

Is there a way to find out your ancestry using genetics, or any other way for that matter?

>> No.7021195

If your skin color is brown then there's a good chance your ancestry is niggers

>> No.7021196

>biology
>science

>> No.7021211

>>7021187
Yes, for $99.

>https://www.23andme.com/ancestry/

>> No.7021231

>>7021211
>>7021187

The only problem with haplogroup testing is that you can only get the outer two branches of your family tree, which probably is enough to satisfy curiosity though.

>> No.7021242

teach me pls

>> No.7021255

>>7021231
It's a start. Maybe OP could also test his parents and grandparents.

>> No.7021597

>>7021196

It's actually the most important science in the 21. century.

Stay mad plebian.

>> No.7021604

>>7021187
Yeah. It's commonly done; 23andMe can do it for you.

>> No.7021639
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7021639

>>7021187
Yes. In molecular evolution, a haplogroup is a group of similar genetic haplotypes that share a common ancestor having the same nucleotide polymorphism mutation in all of its haplotypes.

Using this information, bioinformaticians and geneticists can read your genetic data via a sample and connect your haplogroup to an ancestor.

>> No.7021686

>>7021639
what if the nucleotide polymorphism developed by random mutation another time, much after the original one, in another group of individuals ? then you would get loads of false positives ...

>> No.7021689

Yes.

23andme is such a resource.

>> No.7021718

>>7021686
None of the mutations would have happened since the data was collected, so any unique mutations would already be listed as a distinct haplogroup.

Multiple markers also provide more reliability to the data, since mutations to the locations in question happen over the course of several hundred to thousands of years.The chance of being an outlier in all of them is next to zero.

>> No.7021744

>>7021196
>being this retarded

>> No.7021780

>>7021597
I would say biomolecular engineering would take that role, since it's pretty much entirely about genetic/molecular engineering to produce goods, medicines, and to satisfy the energy needs of a rapidly growing population.There's a pretty large overlap with biologists and the field though, so I'll give you that.

Computer Science would be a close second for obvious reasons.