Are Home DNA Kits Really Accurate? Jeff Rossen Investigates With Identical Triplet Sisters | TODAY

DNA tests you can take with do-it-yourself kits sent right to your home are more popular than ever, but how well do they really work? TODAY national investigative correspondent Jeff Rossen looks into it - with the help of identical triplet sisters!
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Are Home DNA Kits Really Accurate? Jeff Rossen Investigates With Identical Triplet Sisters | TODAY

[@first782]

Every time I see twins/triplets all I think is "I wonder who was the original egg that split?"

[@jenniferbullett7254]

Good question.

[@Sidmarine]

Same lmao

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

Be grateful they didn't end up conjoined triplets.

[@never_give_up90]

Wouldn't they all be the original egg that split? Lol Cause it's equal combination that later equally split and formed. So they are all original!

[@jones2277]

they're all from the original egg...

[@RichardsWorld]

Me and my brother's results came back. We have some questions for my mother.

[@businesslucid7gaming457]

I made my dog spit in it and it came back as Russian and Canadian

[@lucyluca6602]

What if my Labrador turns out to be a Newfie :O :O :O ?

[@Hugomad2]

No way

[@hisexcellencypresidentofre4118]

I do know that all bears are Russian.

[@Mike604]

In Soviet Russia, Dog makes you spit and you get the DNA test.

[@Alex-dj1os]

MikeM In soviet russia dna test get you to spit on dog

[@abbz4u]

This isn't a test, this is a paid promotion

[@achiepalaago]

Exactly, might as well be a paid commercial for the testing companies. This totally confirms what i already know about tv being propaganda tools. There is evidence out there that shows emphatically that these tests are nowhere near accurate and are scams. If you know anything about dna, you'd know that they don't have the information needed to tell what they say they can tell. Utter rubbish.

[@jaybird1150]

abbz4u ya think?!?!

[@ShadowFreddy612]

It done every day we promote as humans

[@kourtneyrenee4492]

Exactly! Sponsored advertisement

[@DanielGibus]

It’s not paid... they wouldn’t get money from 3 companies that are competitors

[@Empriz7]

It would have been convincing if they shared the percentage breakdown...or even any of the actual DNA results... tease

[@never_give_up90]

Not really, cause percentage is an estimate and won't be the same even on identical twins. And I bet on Myheritage it was way off because Myheritage gives wrong percentage all the time, like way off.

[@JosephDillman]

Yeah total clickbait. Especially when there are more videos sharing twins' results differing as the regional increments become smaller from company to company due to their comparing against different databases.

[@jollygoodgordon5580]

@@never_give_up90 on what do you base your claim that MyHeritage gives wrong percentages??

[@rohan5302]

@@jollygoodgordon5580 AncestryDNA and 23andme have a way bigger population sample from different regions of the world. I've watched people take myheritage and the results can be vague. Its because more people buy the other 2 because there advertised more therefore myheritage will need more saliva samples to be more accurate

[@antoinette4995]

Exactly!

[@clydecavalieri4511]

It would have been interesting if two were identical on every test and a third was significantly different in the same way on each test.

[@kristinaF54]

Yeah like and the third one wasn't fully human with alien DNA, and after the results were read out, she rips off her human face to show a lizard's face underneath and bites the news correspondent on the throat and blood spews everywhere. That would be worth watching.

[@m777H]

@@kristinaF54 Oh wow

[@tothemax9850]

@@kristinaF54lmao

[@SweetSirenia]

I'm on several DNA sites because of adoption. My 23andMe, Ancestry, and FamilyTreeDNA results are nearly identical to each other, while my MyHeritage ethnic projections are WAY different. I have read that from a lot of reviewers, too.

[@nathanpearl2321]

Another one that is getting bad reviews along those lines is CRI. They seem to be sending out identical results to a lot of different unrelated people, who have verified via paper trails that they are NOT from where CRI says they are from.

[@jyoz08]

As of January, there was an update to the MyHeritage DNA sampling size and region grouping. Have you gone back to compare your newly updated results? I know many of these companies are updating results as time goes by. My sister's results changed from 12% Italian and 3% Sardinian to 0% Italian and 0% Sardinian and replaced it with Greek and Portuguese on Ancestry DNA for example.

[@DemosthenesKar]

@@jyoz08 The problem is also how long back you go, for example what do you put in italian, do you put the italians of the time of augustus or of the time of marco polo

[@johnmead9012]

I was supposed to send my spit? I sent a stool sample.

[@CarlosRodriguez-nh8gy]

congrats

[@arianelove8513]

John Mead 🤣😂🤣

[@tiawilliams4149]

😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jamierupert7563]

Haha that's hilarious!! But, I know you didn't.

[@jessewass4185]

Lmfao...

[@thatthieff]

2017: You can buy all these for under 100$ each. 2021: Ancestry: 99$-119$ 23&me: 169$-199$ MyHeritage: 79$(12$ shipping)

[@karenpinson759]

Nice to know that all 3 companies are accurate. I have been pondering which one to try first.

[@tehonlygod]

They aren't accurate, they can generally tell where you're from but the percentages are a complete guess

[@mattr.1887]

It may not always be this accurate.

[@soufian_d]

im north african but i live in england. I will get my results soon so i will seenif they are accurate or not

[@emanuel6233]

I love how the triplets talk like an NPC from a video game lmao

[@romanticdonkey468]

Reading the comments below, it seems that everyone is a geneticist

[@thomashvnmusic]

Specially the reporters.

[@Anna-cn8cf]

Why can't the test just be a single person takes all 3 tests?

[@garrett21]

To make sure they’re accurate and don’t vary between tests

[@jamesfreeman7954]

The start of the video says they are triplets hence have identical DNA. Goal of the video was too see whether 3 different companies ended up with the same conclusions as to the genetic makeup of the customer. OP is correct hypothesis couldve been tested with a single individual.

[@RosannaMiller]

A single person can take three different tests. The reason they are using identical triplets is because the results should be identical. Dependent on whether they are identical or not, that should tell you whether the tests are good or not.

[@blakegillpuente3904]

Typically in science, we do things in multiples and apply statistics to get arround any discrepancies that may arise from unexpected sources (human error, equipment error, random occurrences, etc). So, it makes sense to do triplicates of each test, knowing that the source of each should be identical.

[@trinitibeauty9732]

Yeah I do agree they could have used 1 person but using 3 identical triplets with 3 different tests each should show more accuracy with the tests between each of them. So it shows that every single test taken wasn't just jumbled BS false results.

[@GG-ou2tz]

I did the dna test and it came back that I’m related to Jeffrey Dahmer so now I have the mailman on the grill in the yard and I’m seasoning my neighbor using a recipe by Gordon Ramsay

[@tinyflyingdragons9432]

??????

[@tinyflyingdragons9432]

😂

[@LyraPyxisVT]

wait seriously, or are you joking

[@Zipperneck.]

The test results are back: They are all the same Cinnabon manager from Albuquerque.

[@whathuh6965]

This entire ploy was a cunning marketing scheme to promote all 3 companies. These were all paid participants. Carefully structured to conjure confidence in us the onlookers in spending more of our money. Very crafty and masterfully executed.

[@ultimathule1000]

But you can do the same checking: send to all of these companies two probes of your own DNA. It is so simple to verify ...

[@angelheartonline]

You are so correct. Many of these test are wrong

[@pappysprite]

I totally agree. You took the words out of my mouth and I was thinking the exact thing

[@jamierupert7563]

I hope you didn't fall for it.

[@pappysprite]

lol of course not

[@jojorey6886]

I’m still skeptical about giving DNA to a world bank. Sounds like fun but is there more to this than meets the eye?

[@RA-wm6rp]

So you have never given a blood sample in your life? Lmao nothing is safe.

[@jojorey6886]

It doesn’t change my mind about there being more to it than meets the eye because everyone has given blood, but they seem to be enticing people with this wonderful idea. I do have relatives that have had it done and I’m not listed as a match because they don’t have a sample of my spit. I already know my ancestry without supplying a DNA sample. I don’t jump on every bandwagon the majority run after. I like to wait and watch much like FB; how wonderful an idea that was. They seem to be running into problems lately. If someone wants something from me I prefer they just ask me for it instead of using deceit as a means to get it.

[@EchadLevShtim]

Unless you are Hebrew, then it could work in your favor. It would literally put you in a different line at the Fema camps.

[@oneyetiger]

Don 't be skeptical. Be warned.

[@jamaljones8662]

I took one to get a better idea of what parts of Africa I originate from. I ended up finding a long lost sister.

[@mastersinr]

You're 5% middle eastern, yep thats accurate. SMH

[@dantan1249]

right. they knew the exact amount

[@kofiamankwa9258]

😂😂😂😂

[@agfromdai.e3806]

It's an estimate

[@TURQUOISEEYES]

They KNOW they have middle eastern in them, stupid! That's why the confirmed it. Their parents told them!

[@nxtchpforme9154]

Question is if the standard used by the labs are uniformed, they will certainly get the same results. How many food companies use the same manufacturer and change the name??

[@paulobrien7557]

What if someone leaves your DNA at a crime scene

[@CastlesForEyes]

What a very in depth analysis, glad I watched😦

[@suewilson1801]

I took part in a special study with 23 and Me and various science departments at my alma mater, Penn State about 8 years ago. More in depth than the 23 and Me kit you get via mail, I had to fill bigger and more test vials with spit, they took a chunk of my hair (I do not dye it, it is about 99% gray), scanned a digital image of my head, sampled skin. I was just starting ancestry research and knew my mother's family was 100% Scottish and my dad was mostly German. That was true, so no surprises there. What was amazing was the traits and health info I got, and continue to get. I ordered a test for my.husband, but made a mistake. It was NOT 23 and Me. I got Ancestry. It was NOT accurate and did not have the health and traits stuff 23 and Me did. We knew his paternal ancestry was Irish and English and his maternal was Polish and French, and Canadian. I had a lot of research on them. Ancestry dna had almost none of that in the records. So then I got him 23 and me... it was VERY accurate. Fast forward to 2016. I was diagnosed with cancer of the uterus, and 6 months later breast cancer and then another breast cancer. I shared all my ancestry research... NO cancer in my family, and my genetics are clear. I have one damaged gene that makes me very sensitive to drugs and alcohol, my liver can't process them well, so they went light on anesthesia. Even so, I am hard to bring out of anesthesia. My surgeon took my case before the tumor board of the Cleveland and Akron hospitals dealing with cancer. They recommended a full DNA test ( blood samples) at one of the 4 top research centers in the country. Guess what? Just like the 23 and Me data. This allowed me to opt in or out for Chemo, so i said no. I did do radiation, and my DNA also qualified me for short course, just 4 weeks. I am really glad I did the 23 and Me test before cancer hit. My cancers are from my body creating too much estrogen, even post Menopause at 42, and post full hysterectomy in 2016 so I take estrogen blockers.

[@dreiaparratt787]

CLE Clinic or University?

[@never_give_up90]

First off, I am sorry to hear about your cancer situation. Glad you are still here to tell the tail. You seem strong and can deal with anything. Nevertheless, Ancestry has been known for being one of the most accurate, more than 23 and me. It's not about which one is better, it's about which one has more samples. Unless it was when ancestry just started off and had limited samples, this story is missing some pieces. Also, you have to know how dna works. I would have to see it for myself to believe that all of this was the way you say. I have taken 5 different dna tests. They all came back similar, some had more or less and some were close but limited on the closest sample. Although,I know how dna works and had a good understanding of why they weren't all the same.

[@suewilson1801]

@@dreiaparratt787 Penn State University Anthropology research plus 23 and Me joined to create the ADAPT study, I believe it was based on 1000 plus volunteers.

[@suewilson1801]

@@never_give_up90 The time frame for my story is Fall of 2016, when I got my cancer #1 diagnosis. World Search Ancestry membership kept my mind and body busy every day researching my family history, and my husband's family. He had a Widow Maker heart Attack in Sept 2014. I had done the ADAPT 23 and Me study in 2012 at Penn State University...but again, it was NOT the kit you get at home. It was administered by professionals and included computer scans of My face, bone structure, hair and skin samples and a lot of saliva. The National DNA testing center at Akron Babies and Children's hospital my cancer center ordered was based on blood samples. Ancestry is ok for holograms, but not genetics. The medical profession scoffs at both Ancestry and 23 and Me. Yet the 23 and Me results for me and my spouse, which keep updating monthly as study data grows are very on target.

[@never_give_up90]

Adapt research is on going and their dna research is based on identifying how traits and diversity works. What they asked of you, is typical for that reason but not necessary for simple traits or just generic make up. You can also do that but it will cost too much out of pocket. DNA gene pool has been increasing more and more. 23 and me is still not more accurate than Ancestry. It still has less of a gene pool and it is better in some areas. This is why, it is recommended to do more than one. That said, your genetics were still limited and are to this day, even if they get updated. We have a long road to perfect any of those gene pools.

[@prewavy]

So why not show us the results ? So fake

[@privatecarrilho3108]

According to my heritage I have a daughter. She contacted me. I don't remember giving birth to anyone, I am shocked at this point I don't even know what to do. Is this DNA test fake? I didn't respond yet, I'm still shocked. I have no kids at all.

[@bebetigre1252]

Big scam company.

[@VideoGrabaciones2010]

An advertisement. Were they paid by these companies? I still have my doubts about the accuracy of these DNA tests.

[@ddddchannel837]

@Alice Smith Read the fine print again.

[@ddddchannel837]

Oh so all three competitors got together and decided to pay some small TV station to say the industry is legit?

[@mendocinainca8]

I did mine with CRI Genetics; I am 83% Peruvian;11% mexican; 2% white; 2% asian. I was born in Mexico but look Peruvian and Chinese for some people so I guess my DNA results are accurate.

[@nunyabiznez6381]

Sorry but no two let alone three people have perfectly identical dna. There is always a slight variation. So using them to check the accuracy of various companies is an invalid approach unless you have all three test with all three companies then see which set of test results is the most consistent and that is the one you want. Ancestry dot com has the biggest data base so they have the ability to give the most detailed results.

[@okrajoe]

DNA tests worst nightmare -- unleash the identical triplets!

[@jones2277]

i love multiples! so cool to see them all grown up.

[@fredsalfa]

Those triplets are amazing !

[@adayinthelifeofautismmsoth9097]

That's not exactly true....they are not truly identical. There will always be slight differences

[@tootsla1252]

Even identical twins can have variations - just like they can have variations in facial features and height.

[@TURQUOISEEYES]

Thata me and my twin!

[@tatorkator9901]

They dont share the exact same dna. Some genes are turned off and turned on at different times other than when the egg splits into three different embryos.

[@Arela1164]

Ancestry DNA was the most accurate according to what I knew about my family. It also assigned me to the correct communities: East Central Louisiana Acadians and Louisiana Creole’s and African Americans. There are also many other cool tools on that site. 23 and me was confusing and very vague. Heritage DNA didn’t make sense about my family and compared to Ancestry DNA. If you’re going to choose one, I recommend AncestryDNA.

[@TURQUOISEEYES]

ANCESTRY WAS RIGHT FOR ME TOO. my sister and I are identical and our cousin list matches our professional Genealogist family cousins and Ancestry from wayback the last names of our cousins match our records.

[@intruzione]

I guess it depends what you looking for, I was confused with 23andMe at first, but once I learned a bit about genealogy, and what my results really mean, I found it more useful than Ancestry. Ancestry is wonderful if you're mostly looking for lost family members or were adopted since it does have a very large database.

[@krazyjnva2up2down55]

What percentage French did they give you? 23andme gave me 12% . I was only expecting 3 to 6% 😳😱. My lineage starts with the Hugenots of South Carolina then Mississippi then ends up in Louisiana

[@krazyjnva2up2down55]

I like the way acestry matches you up with family. 23andme is not so good with that

[@bodigames]

that's because myheritage focuses on Europeans. ancestry and 23andme focus on people in the USA.

[@judyvalencia3257]

Very beautiful triplets.

[@alanfollett6242]

I took one of those tests once. Turns out I’m 4% pepperoni. I knew I should have brushed my teeth before using the swab!

[@lucyluca6602]

Hahaha ! I'm laughing too hard at this

[@GAME4WAR]

I thought this was a fluff piece then he said that you can even do a dna test for your dogs and i knew i was right. I bet all 3 companies paid CBS for this fluff piece.

[@ddddchannel837]

Really? So 3 competitors paid for this together? I doubt it.

[@ycartyahoo]

I wonder did one company create the DNA test and repackage under different names... this occurs with other products.🤔

[@nathanpearl2321]

Some companies use the same labs. Mostly smaller companies. Pretty sure that at the time this was filmed each of these companies had their own lab.

[@lexy9210]

"They spit and spit" 😂 What is this commentary?!

[@shawnwilliams8259]

Identical twins, triplets, etc., do not have the exact same dna. Very similar, but not exact.

[@woah455]

They come from one egg and one sperm so yes, their DNA match is 100% identical at birth. Could slightly alter over time though.

[@shawnwilliams8259]

I should have said "nearly identical" rather than "very similar." Some genetic studies show that genetic differences may exist at birth due to mutations that occur between conception and birth. (www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-superhuman-mind/201211/identical-twins-are-not-genetically-identical). Also, see www.scientificamerican.com/article/identical-twins-genes-are-not-identical/.

[@faith_over_fear8896]

Never undstood why twins like to look and wear the same thing.

[@Stupranos]

Erica Alonso they probably just did it for the segment.

[@faith_over_fear8896]

Maybe but ive seen it many times threw out my life were twins like to do that maybe cause there parents dress them like that since birth they continued it 🤔

[@Stupranos]

If they have the same taste in style that’s one think. Like similar clothes but different colors or patterns etc. but to be exact is a bit much.

[@sita487]

Erica Alonso its a cool feeling i guess, cant judge unless you are a twin

[@HAIRHOLIC_1]

It’s cringe

[@StoryGazelle]

Identical twins don’t have entirely the same DNA.

[@user-ot4wm2fh8g]

The DNA being the same isn’t the issue. As they’re Triplets their DNA WILL be the same so they’ll 100% match as Triplets. Since the DNA was all the same, all three will get the results coming back as identical for each company. It’s where the 3 different companies’ results differ that’s the real test. They seemed pretty similar but all came back with slightly differing regions...

[@ddddchannel837]

There's no surprise there, they define regions differently.

[@minaatiq2197]

Did anyone else notice that one of them was pregnant

[@mariahscurry19]

They should of done the DNA of all 3 on each one of the tests to see if the results vary .lol

[@aliciarobertson4979]

You should watch it again as they did exactly that. So there were a total of 9 tests done. Three companies’ tests for each of the triplets.

[@Trisky]

"They spit and spit and fill this one up too"

[@samslick9000]

They didn't have to show the spitting

[@sciflyernineteensixtynine6950]

It was kind of erotic though

[@lucyluca6602]

Are you really that prude? People have saliva. You have saliva. Deal with it.

[@Sabrineable]

It does work. My cousins are all coming up in the right order. Another thing. 2 people contacted me that they were adopted and yes...I contacted some people and they found their birth parents. The DNA relationship was correct.

[@TheM2heavy]

I think they're related. I am not sure.

[@DReardon-hq2vb]

This is really cool. I’m surprised it’s so accurate and will do this now!!

[@trobairitz8654]

Its not. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6TEZpZnpZuUeZI

[@albertoortega8510]

Twins do not have identical DNA. It can be identical to a certain percentage, but never a 100%. Who told him this?

[@jerridombrowski6017]

True statement. Epigenetics man, epigenetics.

[@sarmaboi2073]

@@jerridombrowski6017 identical twins do in fact have 100% same DNA :)

[@TURQUOISEEYES]

Some do show up the same some don't. I am a identical twin my results weren't the same. But VERY close it did say we were identical!

[@kpoppapi1493]

Nobody share the exact same DNA because siblings get certain DNA from each parent so one may have a certain ethnic from one parent but the other may not. This is such a lie and so not true that they were 100 percent the same.

[@ver_idem]

The Haplos where the same,if you sequence the whole DNA you´ll have to pay arround 3x1k$ 4 all 3,of course tiny mutations are present but in the range maybe 1-2%.

[@jungla3]

I took the Ancestry test a few years ago and it seems extremely unreliable. The results keep "updating" every month, which drastically changes the results. For example, when I first took the test it said I was 10% British, and now after a certain number of updates (a few years later) I'm suddenly 0% British. At first I was also 85% Scandinavian and now after a few updates I'm suddenly 98% Scandinavian. Before I had some Polish/Lithuanian/Russian DNA, and now that's suddenly at 0%. It seems incredibly sketchy that it's constantly changing THAT drastically. It almost seems like they keep randomly changing your result in order to get you to come back to their service and perhaps spend more money on it.

[@xsatsuki98x]

It keeps changing as the database increases ig

[@janeyoung4783]

WHY would you willingly give anyone your DNA? You make it so easy for those with any nefarious intentions! What a data base they must have!

[@user-eo5bh2zg2]

What would they do with it?

[@trantrungnam612]

Jane Young lmao yeah your DNA is so important, these evil corporations may use it to clone you and take advantage of your identity, right? 😂

[@stfub100]

Lmao. If you ever made a blood test in any hospital the government already has your dna.

[@kamirobey175]

If you have nothing to hide then it's not a big deal. What do you think they're doing cloning people from your spit? seriously?

[@BLAM777]

Love how people say if you have nothing to hide. Than lets get rid of the 4th amendment, and let the police just come into your house anytime they want with no warrant. No big deal if you have NOTHING TO HIDE, right? What a bunch of dumb nuts

[@HAIRHOLIC_1]

Sponsored much?!? I’ve seen other videos with triplets and the results where all slightly different

[@NCXitlali]

I wanna see

[@beastmasterakathabarbaric1509]

Thats very possible each person DnA is uniqe 2 identical twins will have same dna yet slightly different where 1 may find that 1 twin has 70% Scandinavian 30% middle eastern where the other twin may have 78% Scandinavian 22% middle eastern.That is a very accurate comment.

[@maryanne2025]

Were they “identical” triplets?

[@jeannabug94]

BeastMaster AkA ThaBarbaric1 not true if they are identical, when they are identical it’s the same egg and sperm

[@medinatabor6492]

@@maryanne2025 That is what they said.

[@notforposers]

2:27 Directly to the results if you want to avoid the fluff.

[@HandleThiSS88]

Even triplets don't have the same exact DNA. No one does

[@HandleThiSS88]

Andrea Mendenhall they only share a max of 99.99%.

[@AceofCoins7]

Dee you’re just making up facts, identicals have the exact same dna

[@bethcooley9224]

Since they are identical. Yes...it does match.

[@symmingly2073]

Is this a joke

[@romanticdonkey468]

I love when people have no idea what they are talking about, but try to speak with authority.

[@michelleking7938]

I did 23 & me and the only thing they got right was I have brown eyes. They said I had no freckles and I have hundreds, literally everything else was wrong. At the same time my daughter, I gave birth to, our ethnic findings were not even close. She did match all my relatives as family and her dads but it said she was mostly Scottish and Irish and I’m German and IItalian. Which is not the case. I’m Scottish, Irish and Cherokee.

[@DemosthenesKar]

it characterised differently the same celtic dna, one said it was from the celts of northern italy and germany while the other from scotland and ireland (which is the only place celts where not conquered), its the problem of the true italian (is it the bc italian or the 1000ad italian)

[@anonoymus7053]

I took three different tests. They were all drastically different from eachother. With one claiming im part nigerian and Melanesian and the other claiming im part Siberian all while differing on the percentage amounts drastically. Can somebody explain?

[@ujug.g5592]

yes dna test are scam all you need to know

[@TURQUOISEEYES]

No. They are not a scam. The bigger companies have better results. We did Ancestry.com. came back pretty accurate. They said I was an identical twin....I am. And our cousin list matched our records.

[@rodneymurphy3900]

Let me guess the one that said part Nigerian was my heritage?

[@bebetigre1252]

@@rodneymurphy3900 my heritage does that to everyone,they messing with the test ,big scam and then they trick u into a yearly subscription $300.

[@H76Pro]

Thank you for this report.

[@jamesfreeman7954]

No standardization of the database as to how the companies derive country of origin. If anything only the region can be relied upon.

[@nightstormexperience3968]

I have tested with around nine companies with nine different results.

[@ddddchannel837]

They're not supposed to come back exactly the same, the regions are defined differently. Also there is always a margin of error.

[@wendelldillard3758]

They shouldn't be exactly the same. No two people are exactly alike

[@hejiranyc]

Somebody apparently slept during high school biology class...

[@wendelldillard3758]

@@hejiranyc if you think there are people with equal dna . You never had bio

[@realpqleur]

Tests are flawed, Simian ancestry not included.

[@CheriSTJohn-mh8wz]

realpqleur that is not true. My cousins father is from Hawaii. He is 32%. Not true. It did show up.

[@TURQUOISEEYES]

@@CheriSTJohn-mh8wz right, mine matched my records

[@joestar6194]

They keep your DNA to "use" as they see fit.

[@mattls7918]

No... kzbin.info/www/bejne/i2SodqCMm8d-hNU

[@trance212]

Correct!

[@msmorningstar2116]

Exactly. I'm curious but not enough to give anyone my DNA. 😬

[@mtraa.942]

Biological weapons?

[@SUGAR_XYLER]

Yes Pink. It goes straight to the government crime database. That and our smartphones are tracking people now.

[@alexjenners1900]

Siblings can have different DNA

[@elspethgraham9531]

The percentages will differ somewhat because the combination from mom and dad will differ. The siblings should not differ q whole lot in the long run. The DNA tests will indicate that there is a 50% chance of your sibling is indeed your sibling.

[@CheriSTJohn-mh8wz]

Alex Jenners yes they can.

[@stevenp3176]

There’s only a few companies that actually do the actual testing. All of the dna test kit companies just send their samples there to be tested. There won’t be a difference because of this between brands. Same with urinalysis ect

[@nethacker91]

No, that's not true. They focus on different things for the matches. Your DNA is the same for sure, but the algorithm to process the matches is different from company to company.

[@jamesryan6224]

For an accurate test of the tests, each of the three twins should take each of the three tests.

[@jyoz08]

They did, they took 9 tests in all (you can see three test of each of the three brands on the table). The 23andMe and the MyHeritageDNA tests revealed that all 3 had a 100% match within their respective tests; Ancestry DNA came back with a high percentage of match though not 100%. Then the ancestral ethnicity results came back similar across the tests for all 3 on the different kits.

[@shaunsteele8244]

they're only as "accurate" as the reference data they're comparing you to, which is constantly changing. As time goes on they'll get more and more precise

[@hotsauce3700]

Guess what, ladies, you are related!!!

[@meta-etherealinfo2445]

i made 3 tests with 3 different dna test co,and they are phoney to me!

[@andouille9950]

The triples said everything in well, triple..

[@BrbZrk_2]

North african is something else than middle east though

[@Big-zd8dr]

@Al Person they äre different my friend. 87-93% of all North Africans that call themselves "arabs are acuatally more Berber/Amazigh than arab, im from Tunisia and im a Berber Sorry for my bad English

[@maryamelb4918]

Al Person you so dumb

[@isabelnavaro6322]

Karim Benzema I got 1 percent North African!

[@Andrea-xs4ny]

Recep Metin Erdem - The influx of Middle Eastern Muslims throughout Africa, especially North Africa, for hundreds of years brought a lot of Middle Eastern DNA to Africa.

[@serolatei9262]

@@Andrea-xs4ny north african DNA was also brought to the middle east (especially the levent) by egyptians. europeans who happen to have a middle eastern/north african DNA probably got it from the moors.

[@BoostedLeonitus]

Triplets that spit & spit 😳😳😳

[@danseabreeze1404]

And who cares anyway? I couldn't care less if I'm from the moon, it's who you are today that counts and how you share with your family and friends. How you treat others even if they're "strangers".

[@rod_triplxvi739]

Which of the 3 brands is 100% accurate???

[@rockygirlstevenson3568]

My sis did 23 & me and another top company. Totally different results one said (26% Italian) no mention of (6% polinisian or 25 % Chinese) the other one said and no mention of Italian. Other videos showed actual results of identicsl twins and the results were way different from comanpy to company and results for each per company.

[@Tysto]

Non-identical siblings can have significantly different DNA. You each get a different mix of your grandparents' genes from each of your parents.

[@AndySaenz]

My biggest concern is, where does the DNA end up? Does the government have access to them? I don’t want my DNA to end up in the wrong hands. What if they make a clone out of my DNA? I wouldn’t want my identity stolen by my clone!

[@ms.rstake_1211]

The Doctors did this and proved it doesn't work the way people think. They got similar results. ➕ It's your own spit dear.

[@aliciarobertson4979]

The title states that these are identical triplets. “Triplets are three babies carried in the same womb during a single pregnancy. Like twins, triplets and other higher-order multiples can be categorized by their zygosity or degree of genetic similarity. Though triplets are most commonly fraternal (dizygotic or trizygotic), it is possible for triplets to be identical (monozygotic). “ My husband was a triplet with an identical brother from the same egg, and the other oldest triplet was fraternal. Although born before ultrasounds and similar modern tests this was known from the day of their birth, but people always confused the oldest triplet with my husband as they looked very alike too. All the family could tell them apart and we wives, as their parents and siblings also said, didn’t think that they were indistinguishable!

[@Gguy061]

this segment brought to you by 23 and me

[@ddddchannel837]

23andme is promoting their competitors now?

[@chrisgordon5719]

Well, I adopted is my wife's BIO daughter. She sent in her "Spit" into AncestryDNA. It came back to her saying "RB is your biological father. His children are your 1/2 siblings. RB's family isn't happy about the "Family Secret" getting out but "RB's" Signature is on the adoption papers. AncestryDNA testing. The worst thing that ever happened to family secrets in the whole wide world. So much for accuracy.

[@hotsauce3700]

Gross, can you imagine working in the lab and having to process those kits?

[@inky8294]

Gorgeous three ladies

[@joshuarichmond4273]

Interesting video 👍

[@jacquelinewilson2279]

But the DNA is owned and stored by the companies - this needs more scrutiny.

[@eyd1214]

It might have been better to have all of them do all of the tests.

[@christianvinquen5157]

One result says : Middle-East, the other result says : North-African. Those results are not the same since the Berber genetic profile is not the same as the semite genetic profile. If you want to know more : journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0192269 It seems north-africans are not arabs but arabized people. So genetically talking north-africans ≠ middle-easterns. ( If you want to talk also about arab invasion, you could as well talk about the phoenicians, the sub-saharans, the byzantines, the ottomans, the vandals, the french and so on...)

[@warkito]

they forgot to say "this space was sponsored by this 3 companies"

[@Codi892]

How is North African and Middle Eastern the same? Its not even on the same contient

[@Falconryder]

You need to look at a map.

[@goodelucky]

Wish I had triplets

[@zachl2829]

Either Inside Edition Copied Them Or They Copied Inside Edition.

[@alissakaced6752]

How can triplet be identical! Only twins or quadruplets, sixtuplets etc can be identical ! The egg can split in two but not in three! In the case of triplets there are two identical and one fraternal

[@venuswest1914]

They actually aren't suppose to be the same. I hate how he says that. Everyones dna is different, even identical twins. My mom and her twin took a dna test and got allmost same results. But not exact.

[@slavaukraine5117]

They would be the same because they share both parents DNA 50/50

[@katieviljoen8409]

I’ve got twin boys and love seeing triplets

[@ady7d77]

i didn't have problems to tell my dog to spit, for he used to drool and fill a whole wooden bucket.

[@Arizona_lilly]

I think data base has to be update with every new person if u checked them now and 1 year later

[@erzonca558]

I ordered 2 DNA kits as gifts for friends. They arrived and I handed out the gifts. NONE OF THE TWO KITS WORK!!! It's impossible to activate them. Both friends are very dissappointed. If you put the number it says it does not exist in the system. Both kits. I lost my money. BEWARE!!! There is no way to contact My Heritage. At least in Belgium it is just a rip-off! Not a professional company.

[@user-tb8fh3wl6i]

Don’t ya just love how they give vague breakdowns of their percentages?! But wow, it’s soo accurate and believable! Nothing to see here. 🙄 🤣😆🤣

[@theEricWalker]

Identical? They look nothing alike