{"id":212,"date":"2007-11-26T16:33:41","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T23:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=212"},"modified":"2011-04-14T16:38:14","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T23:38:14","slug":"study-fails-commercial-ancestry-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"Study fails commercial ancestry tests"},"content":{"rendered":"

America may be a melting pot, but the result is generally more stew than fondue; for many of us, where we came from\u2014whether by boat or ice bridge\u2014constitutes a significant part of our identity. Beyond whatever social implications it may have, our heritage slumbers within us in ways we don\u2019t fully understand, yet are fascinated by.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no wonder commercial genetic ancestry tests are so appealing.\u00a0 Still, a little caveat emptor is in order: According to an article in the journal Science, consumers who plop down their Benjamins for genetic answers may not be getting what they bargained for.<\/p>\n

Study probes genetic ancestry tests<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

America may be a melting pot, but the result is generally more stew than fondue; for many of us, where we came from\u2014whether by boat or ice bridge\u2014constitutes a significant part of our identity. Beyond whatever social implications it may have, our heritage slumbers within us in ways we don\u2019t fully understand, yet are fascinated … Continue reading Study fails commercial ancestry tests<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,84,3,13],"tags":[45,40],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer","category-culture","category-genetics","category-science","category-technology","tag-family","tag-minorities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}