23andMe identifies seven genetic subgroups for that group.
There may not be enough samples for finer detail. People have tried to use 23andMe data to decide who gets tribal membership benefits. But the company says there's not enough genetic difference for that.
There's a lot of noise in genetic data. Each person's DNA is about half from each parent, but which parts are copied is somewhat random. Unless some population comes from a very narrow base, such as Thoroughbred horses (three founding sires, although many mares) or cheetahs (almost extinct at some point and have only a few common ancestors), strong genetic uniformity is rare. Some isolated human populations show it, but those are inherently ones that don't get around much.
> a privatized "FDA" which can independently evaluate the science that this enterprise produces
Why privatized? The general experience with privatized healthcare is pretty awful. The reason there's an FDA in the first place is that corporations couldn't be honest in the face of profits.
You are comfortable highlighting the supposed fact that Indians apparently smell worse then others, in general. Why do you suppose you can literally highlight that so easily? Are you of Indian descent? Now if some random white guy said the same thing... I live in South Africa, home of the biggest Indian population in Africa, and one of the biggest in the world. I will answer your question as an unemployed Coloured(gasp) male who dropped out of highschool - It's the spice. It's the atchar. That stuff goes right to your armpits. Like onions find their way to jizz. No science, just astute observation. Anybody got a grant to give? I will investigate this 24/7
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[ 5.8 ms ] story [ 32.9 ms ] thread23andMe does that.[1] They identify 47 ancestry populations. If you send them a DNA sample, they give you your percentage from each group.
[1] https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/212169298...
https://www.census.gov/topics/population/race/about.html
There may not be enough samples for finer detail. People have tried to use 23andMe data to decide who gets tribal membership benefits. But the company says there's not enough genetic difference for that.
There's a lot of noise in genetic data. Each person's DNA is about half from each parent, but which parts are copied is somewhat random. Unless some population comes from a very narrow base, such as Thoroughbred horses (three founding sires, although many mares) or cheetahs (almost extinct at some point and have only a few common ancestors), strong genetic uniformity is rare. Some isolated human populations show it, but those are inherently ones that don't get around much.
Why privatized? The general experience with privatized healthcare is pretty awful. The reason there's an FDA in the first place is that corporations couldn't be honest in the face of profits.