How accurate are DNA tests?

DNA tests are very popular. But have you ever wondered if what those DNA tests tell you is accurate? We have. So we sent in the same DNA sample to several different companies to see if we?d get the same results.

[@Na-du9fs]

Your DNA result marked North Africa. This region is not black African. They are a mixture of ethnicities like Arabs and Europeans who moved their thousands of years ago ( e.g. roman empire… etc). This is why there is a possible common DNA.

[@-Mitra-]

They ARE NOT Arabs. That's a Mediterranean/Pontic type having nothing in common with Arabs from Saudi desert 😡

[@rashardstallworth9240]

It is not today, but it was a few years ago. so was it in India, Southeast Asia, Asian Pacific islands, central, and South America and parts of North America. Do your research. There are paintings all over Europe, and thousands of books locally to document what I’m saying.

[@AdemHelal]

​​@@rashardstallworth9240 Nonsense. North africa has been light brown for thousands of years. I'm north african myself. Before Islam, we were mainly berbers with some european and levant and african genes. After Islam, a few arab tribes migrated to north africa and mated with berbers. We have books(litterature,..) that are more than a thousand years old. And north african were always white(not european white, but light brown)

[@dululpo.-.7703]

​@@AdemHelalas a moroccan half european i agree brotha

[@دكتورالإحصائياتالعربي]

@@AdemHelal Most of Countries that knew many migration show different perecentages of Ydna, North Africa is no different, I'm not expert on genetics but it's odd that few arabs change the language of the majority, they only exeplanation is that they were numerous

[@gabrielm.942]

Wtf he is talking about slavery. It’s North African not Subsaharan dna.

[@JoaoRibeirodosSantosReis-db2ej]

She did score some Nigerian if you look closely at 2:24... although probably low enough to be in the margin of error

[@rashardstallworth9240]

You need to read the book. North Africa, Southeast Asia, many parts of North America, all of central, and South America, the Asian Pacific islands, India, many other places were Black people just a few hundred years ago. It is documented all throughout Europe, and paintings, and thousands and thousands of books.

[@gabrielm.942]

@@rashardstallworth9240 that’s legit not true at all bud 😂

[@razzaman9023]

North African DNA is from Arabs and the Greeks that invaded thousands and hundreds of years ago and they ethnically cleansed the land

[@mcgritty8842]

@@rashardstallworth9240you’re totally trippin dude

[@youyoua4803]

I don’t think it’s slavery, I think it’s the north African ruling of Spain and Portugal for over 800 years that had something to do with your results

[@LutherusPXCs]

People are ignorant, they don't know how diverse Africa truly is

[@ALKEBULAN678]

You think. But doesn’t mean you are right.

[@youyoua4803]

@@ALKEBULAN678 hence the use of “I think”

[@halfthedane3894]

Transatlantic slave trade to America was from West Africa, not north Africa. Also: north africans are not black.

[@noneofyourbusiness6782]

Where did enslaved Africans come from? In the first 150 years of the trade, West Central Africa supplied nine out of ten African people destined for a life of slavery in the Americas. Except for a fifty-year period between 1676 and 1725, West Central Africa sent more slaves to the Americas than any other region.

[@anthonylemkendorf3114]

The Geneticist “go a head and wast your money”.

[@GholaTleilaxu]

Or "go without a head and waste your digital numbers you call money"

[@reecewatkins1]

That’s not really what he said at all though, is it? The fact all 3 companies had similar results is evidence the tests are accurate.

[@Gr8nessnMe070]

@@reecewatkins1wrong.

[@rjofusetsudzin8011]

​@@Gr8nessnMe070why because you said so?

[@captainjackuniversal]

Actally the test results were 100 percent accurate, all of them showed correct results, the north african is european too, because guess what, north africa was part of roman empire and then berbers/amazigh people took over and then arabs who almost all of them where light skienned , not all afriqa is dark

[@CarolSuniga-h5g]

Thank you, I 'very had a few dna tests done myself. I needed some feedback because my results were a lil different frm each test , e en though some results were the same, still other results didn't show up.

[@CarolSuniga-h5g]

@NowhereBeats oh wow, that's interesting because my dad came out with 2% North Africa, 2%Congo, 2%Senegal, and less than 1% Nigeria along with European results with his Mesoamerican. But it changed in My Heritage, all these results were gone, except for Mesoamerican and he received a 1.5% Philipino and 1.0% Inuit. I'm thinking of trying 23andMe now because of the way they breakdown regions and seem to trace even the smallest percents of dna.

[@Big_SungisYT]

My grandma's dad is Turkish but that probably won't show in my DNA tests, I'M PROUD GREEK 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷 RAHHH

[@Swing20]

North African. That’s not slavery related. It belongs to the history of Europe.

[@noneofyourbusiness6782]

That's right, I got 4.9% North African, and my parents were European.

[@Micheal-jo1sl]

Not true. Africans are Africans.

[@jdagreat4595]

😂 north africa is not European lol u guys are so clueless lol

[@MrJ691]

They don't tell your race. You're not a percentage African or European. Based on the reference population of the latest two generations you're 1% of genes that differ in humans matched by a certain percentage with that reference population.

[@deeremeyer1749]

The "same sample" cannot be sent to "multiple companies" and you could send "different samples" to the "same company" and not "match" YOURSELF.

[@Stellar1991]

Do they really make a genuine test and the result of the test is reliable or simply they are making money with our emotions.. please confirm me bro how to check

[@heavierthanheaven88]

How so if it is the same sample taken at the same time, but split up? Your comment makes no sense. And it is the same dna from the same person in the same day…

[@JohnHughesTR]

Wtf do you mean the same sample can not be sent, its literally the same dna dumbass

[@louiscecerejr]

@@Stellar1991key pt of sales is emotions

[@darkchiild1]

Really now are we being technical.

[@luissarduy6345]

Found out who my real great grandfather was through testing. Orally and genetically confirmed now.

[@reineie]

I'm 55% Egyptian 29% Levent " 20%" Canaanes ! Palestaine " 7% Greek 6% Italian 2% West Africa" Senegal" 1% other

[@LingoLounge952]

Great results

[@EPYes]

Aren't Egyptian and African the same ?

[@-Mitra-]

​@@EPYesno

[@EPYes]

@@-Mitra- Explain 🤔🤔🤔

[@-Mitra-]

@@EPYes because the topic here is ethnicity, and not the commonly shared geographical continent. African inhabitants have a distinct set of differences between each other depending on the part of the continent, same as in any other inhabited continent.

[@jeremyburke7207]

I feel like people only get this cuz they wanna be like I’m not racist I’m 7% african

[@6startrek]

😂

[@jerrycallender-qm7zr]

I used 'Ancestry' and wouldn't give you a dime for the results. My dad was Scot and Dutch and Mama was directly descended from one of the first 'Shires' established after the landing at Jamestown. Ancestry said my dad was English and Mama was Germanic.

[@rryanreid]

A lot of people finding out their fathers aren't their real fathers.

[@sam17ado87]

​@@rryanreiddamn bro😂

[@rryanreid]

@@sam17ado87

[@patrickdupree6742]

Just because it ain't what you want to hear doesn't mean it's not accurate.

[@jackmewhalle6937]

​@@rryanreidthat number is 30 percent. I heard that from a liberal Stanford University professor. Teaching a human behaviors class. 30% of All fathers claiming to be the fathers are not the fathers. I had asked my wife this question before I listened to the professor. She told me it was probably around 30%. I was absolutely floored. I was thinking 2 to 3%. Then I heard the professor say the same thing. These women are hiding this. They know a lot of the fathers are being bamboozled. This somewhat happened to me. I got a girl pregnant who became my wife. Only to find out 30 years later that my brother had told my son he was his real father. My brother is a chronic alcoholic but I've never known him to lie. At first I blew it off to him being drunk. Until I started thinking back. And realized I was out of town right before my girlfriend got pregnant. And my brother was in town from Atlanta. And then I started to look at all the things that didn't make sense back in the day. She named my son after my brother. And there's many more red flags too many to mention. So I did a DNA test. Both my sons came back as mine. I did a little more research and I talked to the lab technician. Explain to him that my son could be my nephew. He said in that case we need your brother's DNA. But before I can make that happen he died and was cremated. So I'm stuck in limbo. And it's driving me crazy. That's why I'm here trying to find out if I can know for sure.

[@byronmillanicia3384]

I'm from El Salvador, must of us are of mix rase. Very cool.

[@exiledknight3961]

The area which the one tests show her African roots are not where the slaves were from. North Africans are closer to Middle Easterns than black people.

[@deeremeyer1749]

The word slave is derived from "slav" as in Yugoslavia and Czechaslovakia so saying she can't be from somewhere not "black enough" to have ever had "slaves" shows how ignorant you are on several levels when it comes to world history, geography, anthropology, social studies and basic common sense.

[@exiledknight3961]

@@deeremeyer1749 Other way around slav comes from the word slave. African American slaves came from east africa not north africa as it was shown on her map. Skin color has nothing to due with it simply shows she more related to people of the middle east as opposed to the east african or black american slaves that were sent west. Learn ur shit before commenting.

[@krissy3186]

Not that being a brown or black person automatically ties a person to slavery but there were/are slaves in North Africa.

[@exiledknight3961]

@@krissy3186 north african slaves didnt go to usa

[@krissy3186]

@@exiledknight3961 - Again, read the entire comment. This is not about her "black" ancestors being slaves. Every African person that was in the US was not a slave. Whether or not North African persons were slaves in the US is a moot point in relation to her DNA results denoting her "African" roots.

[@jeffpagan7735]

Hamilton was from the Bahamas?

[@JohnHughesTR]

Confirmed she has the n word pass

[@KREEZY.]

N-

[@tysonoovayuk8663]

😂😂😂

[@nicoleraheem1195]

Why can't she just be invited to the cookout? What is this fascinating about the N word? A LOT of black people don't even like to say it, so why is the world so obsessed with it?

[@airbornesoldieramerica7125]

Lots of white and Arabic people has African blood. From what I read on Africa, most of northern Africa are Arabic people.

[@tiihgaming2764]

Wow!! Fascinating!

[@leonaober8849]

Very strange results on mine. No American Indian and no German. All my life i was told Mom had American Indian in her family lineage and Dad had German . My daughter had lots of different info then mine but still no Indian or Germsn. So do i believe these test? I dont know that I do..

[@zeged]

I was told I was part cherokee by my Dad except for the fact that I know or at least I think all my grandparents and great grandparents were immigrants from Ireland, England, and Italy.

[@zeged]

Very common lie told by families sometimes it used to be used to cover up subsaharan ancestry occasionally

[@zeged]

Or they just want to be whatever they want and not what they are

[@alpheendomination]

DNA tests do not show what ancestry you have, they show what ancestry you inherited. You inhert 50% of your DNA from your mother and father, and as such may not inherit the genes that they use to identify people from certain regions.

[@Immeallday]

Thats because a lot of Indians aren’t taking the test and refuse to, so they don’t have the information. You might have it, they don’t have the information

[@tsunshinegal9102]

Interesting … I am thinking of doing a dna test . Surely I am Asian / Chinese - perhaps have Mongolian too…

[@jasonvoorhees8899]

2:15 did you take My heritage two times or what? How could it differ that much ? 2:56

[@thegatesofdawn...1386]

It's all fake. Never accurate, unfortunately.

[@jackieortegadesigns326]

I'm from the Philippines and I wanted to have my DNA tests because I'm really curious to know what I really made of and why I look different from the rest of my family except my dad who I share the same Indic/Iranic-like phenotype. Since I was a kid and even until now, my looks always sticks out and when I was a kid, I was bullied in school for my looks but too bad those DNA companies don't ship here in the Philippines. Like many Filipinos I know, I also have a fair share of similar Spanish ancestry claims from both my parents side but I don't buy it because apart from seeing many Filipino DNA test results showing trace to zero Iberian DNA, the rest of my family and relatives all look straight up Southeast Asian and some even look Chinese.

[@byronmillanicia3384]

Always get a second opinion!!! Very important!!! In all health related matters !!! 😮😮😮

[@rubydawn1]

they can reveal some shocking things. I knew much of my mothers back ground and I found so much more also found out my father was not my father and my sister was my half sister.

[@jackmewhalle6937]

This happens to about 30% of All fathers. Who think they are the fathers. And nobody seems to care. The same s*** happened to me.

[@rubydawn1]

@@jackmewhalle6937 dna should be done at birth for so many reasons, There were some clues as I was growing up I did not look like my sister

[@rubydawn1]

@@jackmewhalle6937 lol mama thought she tricked everyone

[@-Mitra-]

Wrong! North African (showed in video as ancestry) and Sub-Saharan African (slavery source) are different.

[@withracheltv7931]

My father is looking for his biological family with genetic testing.

[@daddyjasonssepuya4991]

Omg. 😂😂 freakin wyt peeplzzz..😂why does is this woman talking like this 😂..and the face expressions😅😅. The way she said her % for african😂😂..bet when the cameras went off she said alright buster lets cut the malarkey.

[@lauralaplace9945]

I have to do this it’s been bothering me for a long time .

[@baseer8000]

So she has the N-pass now 😂😂😂

[@lindaeasley5606]

I don't bother caring about less than 10% results. I am 70% English and Irish but my DNA test didn't pick up on small percentage of Welsh and Scots and showed I had German as well but that ,based on genealogical research should not be represented much at all

[@user-zf4uz3hy8z]

Prosecution: We did the DNA tests, and he's 45% guilty on the first test, 62% guilty on the second test, and 87% guilty on the third test. We go with the most expensive, the third test.

[@Heresheis0818]

😢it could be anyone of us # the 0.000000001 % of whoever

[@stefanorossi9643]

A beautiful british woman born in the USA.

[@artilna9894]

Sometimes it’s not a good idea to get dna test I got a dna test after I became 28 just to see if I was actually my moms and dads kid and I found out I wasn’t my dad took a dna test when I born and it showed I was their kid but now that I did it says I wasn’t then I asked the hospital I was born in to do a investigation and found out I was swapped with a Vietnamese family when I was born and found out my parents were Japanese and they had already passed away and the child I was swapped with had died in a car crash

[@TheWalterraigoso]

The father's face with African blood 😂😂

[@-Mitra-]

But he seems to be poorly educated. North Africans weren't slaves. Tunisia (Ancient Carthage), Morocco, Algeria, Libya and Egypt aren't black Africans. Plus countries across the African horn also aren't true black.

[@ltanner1774]

Sounds ike her father is ready to pay reparations based on one DNA result that didn't match the other two.

[@PookieAkATiana]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@annemurphy9339]

Not African but North African. North Africa has had a continuous caucasoid population since the Paleolithic.

[@kwekujunior2600]

Everyone has African DNA . Thats where all human life begun. The entire world is African. What ever your race or ethnicity you're Africa.

[@spike2227]

That's Afro centrist Bs

[@cooper60]

Ur slow

[@kwekujunior2600]

@@cooper60 Your mother is slow

[@kwekujunior2600]

@@spike2227 Go and eat your heart. You have a Neanderthal DNA 🧬 which makes you extremely racist. You can't get inside your racist head that everyone on this planet has African DNA. Racist cow

[@jenniferbell4571]

I am a full biological sibling, but my sister got 30-odd% German on ancestry, but myheritage came back as being 50% Scandinavian, 19% Iberian, 20% Irish, and a bunch of other things in small percentages…. NONE of which is German. I KNOW my grandparents came from Germany. I am 100% positive that some of them are Jews. None of that known heritage is reflected in my report.

[@Ray-mu3eh]

Siblings don’t always inherit all the same genetics. Both your parents give you half of their dna each but this isn’t split evenly in half. For example if your father was 50% French, it doesn’t get split evenly for you to get 25% but you get half of his overall dna which could be whatever the remaining half is or you can even get a slice of French like 13%. This is more noticeable when you compare your own dna with your grandparents. You get the overall half from each of your parents and they get the overall half from each of their parents. This helps diversifies the gene pool. Though dna tests are not perfect and could have a small margin of error.

[@marra132]

Bro, if you think logical. Even when your grandparents are born in Germany, their ancestors could be born in scandanavia, the country name you born in says nothing about the DNA, yes they are born in Germany and they speak German language but their DNA is not matched with normal German people. And this guy above me has also a good point.

[@tylergoodwin3546]

@@marra132 bro, her and her sis should have the exact same DNA sequence and make up. Same percentages. These test are beyond inaccurate and has been a proven scam since they day they came out.

[@marra132]

@@tylergoodwin3546 ohh they have the exact same DNA? How's that possible

[@lisabaltzer4190]

@@tylergoodwin3546My father took two tests from two different companies and they were wildly different. One had him at 39% European and one had 0% European. They feed you garbage information to get you to give them your DNA. So what are they doing with those DNA samples? I think they are looking for something, but what is it?

[@vic_con_carne5137]

North African is of Greek decent

[@literallyme214]

As a North African, I am of amazigh berber decent. You might wanna check your sources again.

[@vic_con_carne5137]

That’s great since the berbers and Arabs over took the mass Greek/phoecian controlled areas after the rise of Islam. The berbers such an incredible source of knowledge and wisdom* added to mankind. Rather, turned many people into theocrats by avenue of their stringent religious beliefs.

[@samdz1259]

@@literallyme214what’s your haplogroup code?

[@mrgooglethegreat]

​@@literallyme214I was gonna say the same thing. 🤣🤣🤣 This guy needs to read more. According to South Carolina Slave Law 1747 who are the ppl classified as the Berbers? The ppl they call that in America dang sure don't look Greek!!!

[@marquise7200]

It’s more Arab than anything but Arabs are mixed too if we being real

[@Dungeonposting]

*North African.. the Amazigh? A controversial topic, even among the Amazigh (Berbers).. while the vandals did invade north Africa, there was a poetic tradition that the golden-haired Hesperides lived there hundreds of years before the gothic immigrations.. the guancha of the nearby Canary Islands were indigenous golden-haired people. One Greek writer who is relatively obscure believed the Amazonian warriors once had an empire that extended from the black sea into Egypt and north Africa.. prehistoric burial mounds of a female warrior caste are found in numbers in Ukraine and southern Russia, and Amazon sure sounds a lot like Amazigh, Though having a creolized ancestor is also possible, albeit more prosaic and kind of a bummer.. my 30% English heritage with .2% Nigerian makes me wonder about myself. They took down a thriving empire there..

[@dalimissa586]

i would trust ancestry and 23 and me more, i wouldn't trust myheritage company at all which might be biased on purpose due to where they are located and how that state was created and how they have been wiping off the native population.

[@dadlord689]

Gambling.

[@sandraalvarez6477]

North Africa has not much to do with slavery in the US. Europeans and Arabs (Greeks, Romans) have a long history of inhabiting North Africa. Also Jews.

[@williamwebb7917]

Africa is a continent, not an ethnic group. North African dna is different from other parts of Africa. Sloppy reporting.

[@user-hf7kp8tb3z]

کالبد رو تشخیص میده هویت رو‌نه

[@petauification]

So African ancestry " jazzes things up "???

[@mkzhero]

So basically its a scam

[@spartaragekick6202]

this is a God -send for detectives.....if a murder is off the grid & nvr been in the system....it dont matter if that killer thinks he is bein clever by lyin low...they can track him dwn from his ancetrial dna tree by finding out who this killer is by relatives who used it....

[@spartaragekick6202]

this is a wrk around for criminals tryin to stay out of the system cuz 90% chance is that relatives r now ligged n2 the ancestrial dna data tool....that cops use to help stop killers.... so now they can go to the nearest relative known relatives & get all the family members names from a album the family album that the killer is pictured n like a family christmas r new years gathering....

[@Signz86]

Dodge the hijack

[@user-ef5gc9up7w]

Other than slavery another thing that people should consider is that ultimately everyone comes from one man and one woman. And if the story of Noah is true then we all come from him which would mean that we would all have some trace of what he was in our dna. Maybe im wrong but it just seems logical.

[@Atajew]

Too bad it isn't true, though we come from a biological Adam and Eve, it's not the Adam and Eve from abrahamic religions. It was hundreds of thousands of years ago.

[@smigma3349]

Yeah that seems logical

[@israelhernandez5431]

Yup. Also people forget that slavery was around for a long time and it wasn’t just African who were enslaved.

[@tbl5138]

Look up the 'anunnaki' and you will change your mind.

[@GholaTleilaxu]

And the Earth is flat.

[@tysonoovayuk8663]

Jesus 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@GholaTleilaxu]

@@tysonoovayuk8663 Just like in my pic, three flat globes.

[@naughtywizard]

My balls are flat

[@wlw82blu]

They have very little to no accuracy regardless of which company someone uses.

[@DPBGMODELRAILROAD]

They are based upon comparing your results to their pool of DNA from people they have tested, as they test more results can change. Also the higher accuracy you ask for can change your results!

[@DPBGMODELRAILROAD]

They are based upon comparing your results to their pool of DNA from people they have tested, as they test more results can change. Also the higher accuracy you ask for can change your results!

[@DPBGMODELRAILROAD]

They are based upon comparing your results to their pool of DNA from people they have tested, as they test more results can change. Also the higher accuracy you ask for can change your results!

[@tylergoodwin3546]

Ancient North Africa was white. Ancient Egypt was built by Ancient Aryans who migrated from Ancient India. Afterwards they moved nothing into Europe and then England. This is why every single Mummy found found in Egypt all the way to Tibet share most of their DNA with the modern European. So when it says North African, it's still ancient white civilization it is referring to. Hence why she is as tan as a gallon of milk.

[@-Mitra-]

Whaaat? Are you high? Claiming Ancient Egyptians and present time half of Egypt and Coptics are of Indian ancestry is nothing but bollocks.

[@Micheal-jo1sl]

Total BS lie and you know it!

[@razzaman9023]

It is well documented that the Greeks invaded Ancient Egypt and drove most of the ancient Egyptians out and they scattered throughout Africa. Also after the Greek invasion there was an Arab invasion and they were far more extreme and castrated and killed practically all of the remaining black population when they invaded and tried to destroy the ancient Egyptian culture as much as possible due to their religious beliefs. They attempted to dismantle the pyramids but couldn’t do it and they ended up staying until modern day

[@-Mitra-]

@@razzaman9023 Egyptians WERE NOT black, you, historical falsifier 🤦

[@cooper60]

So? I guess Ham was white then since he is the father of Egypt

[@notarussianbot8157]

North African that is so vague

[@Rajshikari24]

We all re African

[@darkchiild1]

So does that make her black 🤔

[@randomgirlonyt3221]

No it doesn’t she has it in her but that doesn’t make her black for me you can only say your black or any other country or skin tone if your parents or great grandparents was from that country I apologise if this doesn’t make sense

[@nisamae2]

She's white.

[@naughtywizard]

Black is a mindset

[@nisamae2]

@@naughtywizard wrong

[@The-Geography-Channel94]

No, Northern Africans are more Arab than Black

[@themercuryspace6390]

Fun to see you dont know the difference between north african and subsaharan.

[@ahmedmohamed9013]

You are amazigh north african "berber"

[@siaviken6112]

shes not african.

[@touchmytopic6763]

She could have African dna.

[@touchmytopic6763]

@@NowhereBeats You just don’t want to admit she’s black.

[@hakunamatata5376]

​@@touchmytopic6763she could have "black" dna not african african doesnt mean black africa is a co tinent and african means born if africa a white man bkrn in africa is also an african

[@letsgococo288]

@@NowhereBeatsthey are making from fraud!

[@zeged]

It might even be a misreading but either way majority of north africans aren't black subsaharan africans are and I don't know if the north african part is even right

[@luislongoria6621]

Please pay your dues to the Church of Mormon for favorable results. The answer doesn't matter unless you have rich relatives that share their money, and I'll give you a reality check. Donald Trump doesn't

[@jodiforrester7]

She could easily have an ancestor that was black gosh. Jewish were very dark men being in the sun all the time too. That’s obviously not the same but I’m just saying most of all of us have an African gene in them.

[@L.V-Rider]

You like that? 👎

[@Jenjen2021]

He had to mess it all up with the slavery comment. All races enslaved people at one point or another

[@user-hf7kp8tb3z]

حتی این تست هم دقیق نیست

[@mulierbellator5316]

BS

[@Cowicide]

I feel dumber and much less informed for having watched this.