A map of America’s migrations using genetic data from 770K saliva samples

https://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/what-770000-tubes-of-saliva-reveal-about-america/

by freedomben • 9 years ago

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sl1e• 9 years ago

They still have no clue about the northern Alaska Natives.

liquidise• 9 years ago

Clicking the infographics brings me to a signup page? I'm not one to complain about marketing techniques but jeez is that a poor experience.

jay-saint• 9 years ago

Open the actual image in a new tab it is much larger and actually readable. https://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/files/2017/02/MapMigration_c.j...

mirimir3• 9 years ago

And people worry about Google having too much of their data?

https://www.wired.com/2015/10/familial-dna-evidence-turns-in...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/how-private-dna-data-l...

bigbugbag2• 9 years ago

And rightly so, on top on everything else google has a copy of the whole human genome and has been in this DNA business for almost 10 years.

23andme, Google Health (discontinued), Calico, Google Genomics, Baseline Study to name a few out of the long list of why google is scary.

mirimir3• 9 years ago

Damn. It's worse.

It was disconcerting to learn that the Sorenson DNA data was public. Just "anonymized".

mirimir3• 9 years ago

So I wonder if DNA sequence data could help Google AI (at some point) to better predict behavior.

bigbugbag2• 9 years ago

That the United Stated are a scary place and that you can't trust ancestry.com and ancestryDNA. They will take your DNA samples and put it in a big database to be crunched and analyzed and used for their own marketing. May be used by current or future government for whatever nefarious purpose, or hacked and stolen or sold for profit.

saiya-jin2• 9 years ago

east-german secret service stasi had this technique for up to 5 millions of their own citizens, in form of some smellable clothing sealed in jar so that trained hounds can track you.

slau• 9 years ago

Don't know why this was marked as dead, so I vouched for it.

If it is inaccurate, please provide counter arguments and documentation indicating otherwise.

oblio3• 9 years ago

(rant)

I'm not saying you're wrong and I agree that these companies will use the info for their personal gain.

But I do have a question for anyone watching: why are Americans so paranoid about falling under a authoritarian regime? Europeans aren't as afraid of it and every European country has at one point or another been ruled by a dictator. The US has never been yet the vast majority of comments by Americans seems to indicate a deep distrust of their own government, to the point where half the country would almost get rid of it (Republicans).

There's a very thick line between a slightly abusive and malfunctioning government and full blown dictatorship. And that line is not that easy to cross as it may seem if the country's citizens don't want it. Heck, my country, Romania, who had a very fragile democracy across the years, only succumbed to dictatorship under massive external pressure - including military pressure - from the Nazis and the Communists.

If little ol' Romania, with a very uneducated populace yet willing to fight for its democracy sort of held on for 100 years out of the 160 since its formation, surely the US would be more resilient, without half its citizens becoming paranoid?

(end-of-rant)

hijp• 9 years ago

Why is Hawaii labeled Caribbeans?

Jaruzel• 9 years ago

Direct link to the full-size map for the lazy right-clickers:

https://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/files/2017/02/MapMigration_c.j...

notspanishflu• 9 years ago

That map makes no sense. Hawaii ruled by Caribbeans? California is mostly Portuguese? No sign of Spaniards? I call it BS.

This is a really poor piece of PR for Ancestry.

jaimex22• 9 years ago

So many tin foil hats. Just don't give them your real details when signing up and sending the sample?

I did mine because it was a cheap way to get my DNA in a file. You can then run it against https://promethease.com/ or http://dna.land or whatever other tool you like.

marchenko• 9 years ago

That might work as long as none of your relatives use the service and submit their real details.

jaimex22• 9 years ago

Yeah, there is no defence against that as far as I know?

Like, even if you don't ever do it a relative will still get a close enough match to put you in the picture.

A map of America’s migrations using genetic data from 770K saliva samples

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