Warren’s DNA Flop: Average American has Far More Indian DNA than She Does


After hastily making a big show of the results of a DNA test to determine her ancestry, Elizabeth Warren has once again made herself a laughing stock after it was revealed that she has less Native American roots than the average white American.

The Boston Globe was first to report on a six-page DNA analysis conducted by Carlos D. Bustamante, a Stanford University professor and adviser to the do-it-yourself testing company, 23andMe. But while Bustamante is a professional in his field, even the Globe had to note “the inherent imprecision of the six-page DNA analysis.”

All depends on the great-great-great-great-grandmother of Warren. If that matriarch was a Native American, then the senator is 1/64th American Indian. (The Globe mistakenly has it as 1/32.) But her Native American ancestor could just as likely go back 10 generations, the analysis reports, meaning Warren would be just 1/1024th American Indian.

What do those fractions actually mean? Well, geneticists estimate that the average European-American has genes that are 98.6 percent European, .19 percent African, and .18 Native American. By comparison, Warren’s genes might be just 0.09 percent Native American. On average, if you have a European background, she’s probably less Native American than you or I.

Doh! The senator shouldn’t have jumped the gun.

Democrats reacted with dismay to the release because it comes just three weeks before the midterm elections. Warren has mucked things up for the Dems.

Here’s Warren lying about her parents eloping because her mother was Cherokee.

Source: Washington Examiner Breitbart



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