Originally Posted by
bearisgray
I was watching one of those commercials - i was wondering how specific the results are ."NativeAmerican" for example - Are they able to narrow it to a certain group or groups.
Russia is/was a big country - do the people from the southeast end and the northwest have different characteristics?
I wondered that myself on how they figure that. As far as the Chippewa tribe, which I am part of, there are about 150 different bands or groups.
One would assume that they have to give a "generalized" version of the ethnic background they found in the DNA. Lumping all Russians, Native American, Chinese etc in their perspective categories.