QuoteConsumer DNA testing is going to the dogs. A Canadian testing company has been accused of sending back supposedly human ancestry results on a faux sample that actually came from a chihuahua named Snoopy, CBC News reported Wednesday. Remarkably, it?s the second company reported to have been fooled by doggy DNA in recent months, but the full story behind the sting is even weirder.
The company in question, Viaguard Accu-Metrics, has been exclusively used to verify whether prospective members of the Confederation of Aboriginal People of Canada (CAPC) have any genetic ties to the indigenous populations of Canada. Those who were confirmed to have indigenous DNA via the lab?s results are then given CAPC membership. The results would supposedly not only confirm someone?s ancestry, but narrow down which tribes of the First Nations community they belonged to.
But Louis C?t?, who worked with CAPC to collect DNA samples from hopeful members, became suspicious of the lab. So according to CBC News, C?t? bought three kits from Viaguard himself last summer, then submitted two cheek swabs from himself and one from his girlfriend?s good boy, Snoopy.
The results showed that both he and Snoopy seemingly had 20 percent Indigenous ancestry, 12 percent of which came from the Abenaki tribe and 8 percent from the Mohawk people.
?I thought it was a joke,? C?t? told CBC News. ?The company is fooling people ? the tests are no good.?
CBC News went one step further and submitted samples from three of their employees who were natives of India and Russia, respectively, to both Viaguard and the US-based and popular DNA testing company 23andMe. To 23andMe?s credit, its lab seemed to correctly identify the employees? entirely Eurasian origins, but Viaguard again said all three had 20 percent indigenous DNA, and in the exact same mix that C?t? and Snoopy supposedly had.
Last May, NBC Chicago?s own sting investigation found that the DNA testing company Orig3n was unable to tell that an undercover pup named Bailey was in fact a Labrador retriever, not a human. They reported back that Bailey?s genes made her a great candidate for basketball or endurance training (leave your Air Bud jokes in the comments).
CAPC, meanwhile, has been accused by former members and indigenous law enforcement officials of running a grift. Members are given cards that look similar to the government-issued status cards that allow people legally declared to have indigenous ancestry to get tax exemptions on certain products. Kahnawake Mohawk Peacekeepers in the Montreal region have reportedly seized a hundred of these cards from CAPC members trying to pass them off as the genuine article.
DNA testing, amazingly enough, is not used by the Canadian (or American) government to figure out someone?s potential Native American ancestry, and the experts consulted by CBC News say there?s no consumer DNA test that could possibly determine someone?s specific ties to a First Nation tribe.
https://gizmodo.com/another-dna-testing-company-reportedly-gets-fooled-by-d-1826842819
:omgwatshappening: :mmyulost: :guys:
Oh, America ...
this is America huh
QuoteTo 23andMe?s credit, its lab seemed to correctly identify the employees? entirely Eurasian origins, but Viaguard again said all three had 20 percent indigenous DNA, and in the exact same mix that C?t? and Snoopy supposedly had.
ugh
2GODandME is just...iconic
:nogrammynoneck:
Quote from: 1RIG on June 15, 2018, 06:12:07 AM
Oh, America ...
this is America huh
skjndd
It says Canada hun
:everythingok:
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I'd never send my DNA anywhere anyway. No telling the intentions of these people.
I'm slicing up an Elk
Whew
So a lot of ppl aren?t really what they ?claim? to be? Is that what this means?
:receipts:
Quote from: HUGO on June 15, 2018, 07:32:47 AM
So a lot of ppl aren?t really what they ?claim? to be? Is that what this means?
:receipts:
Yup!
So glad I know where I come from and don't need validate myself from a spit sample
:scrumptious:
Quote from: Guilty on June 15, 2018, 07:48:47 AM
Quote from: HUGO on June 15, 2018, 07:32:47 AM
So a lot of ppl aren?t really what they ?claim? to be? Is that what this means?
:receipts:
Yup!
So glad I know where I come from and don't need validate myself from a spit sample
:scrumptious:
Same here sis! Slay!
West African Kings!
:cheerup:
Quote from: HUGO on June 15, 2018, 07:50:47 AM
Quote from: Guilty on June 15, 2018, 07:48:47 AM
Quote from: HUGO on June 15, 2018, 07:32:47 AM
So a lot of ppl aren?t really what they ?claim? to be? Is that what this means?
:receipts:
Yup!
So glad I know where I come from and don't need validate myself from a spit sample
:scrumptious:
Same here sis! Slay!
West African Kings!
:cheerup:
ACK!
klmmmkmmmm
:guys:
You guys are so shady
Quote from: HUGO on June 15, 2018, 07:32:47 AM
So a lot of ppl aren?t really what they ?claim? to be? Is that what this means?
:receipts:
sddddssssdsssddddddddddddddddddddd
The results are in and ur a nigger, luv
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Quote from: Vonc2002 on June 15, 2018, 08:15:39 AM
Quote from: HUGO on June 15, 2018, 07:32:47 AM
So a lot of ppl aren?t really what they ?claim? to be? Is that what this means?
:receipts:
sddddssssdsssddddddddddddddddddddd
The results are in and ur a nigger, luv
(http://i39.tinypic.com/1hzea1.jpg)
:plzstop:
I knew something wasn't right with those companies
Glad I know where I'm from :woohoo:
Quote from: element on June 15, 2018, 09:49:40 AM
I knew something wasn't right with those companies
Glad I know where I'm from :woohoo:
Ack!!!
I actually thought about checking out the africanancestry facility after hearing Chadwick speak about it. I still was uneasy about the laws/policies around genealogy testing tho, so im glad I didn't. Shit it was expensive too. Saved me some damn loot.
Quote from: Vonc2002 on June 15, 2018, 08:15:39 AM
Quote from: HUGO on June 15, 2018, 07:32:47 AM
So a lot of ppl aren?t really what they ?claim? to be? Is that what this means?
:receipts:
sddddssssdsssddddddddddddddddddddd
The results are in and ur a nigger, luv
(http://i39.tinypic.com/1hzea1.jpg)
BXBDBjdjdhd
Quote from: Kurama on June 15, 2018, 10:40:34 AM
I actually thought about checking out the africanancestry facility after hearing Chadwick speak about it. I still was uneasy about the laws/policies around genealogy testing tho, so im glad I didn't. Shit it was expensive too. Saved me some damn loot.
I wanna do more research on that just to see what other tribes I may belong to. Especially being that the maternal side is more accurate. I just know that my mom side of the Bassa tribe of West Africa who have Kemetic origin, who are people who likely left Egypt
:gorlonfire:
Quote from: HUGO on June 15, 2018, 10:57:24 AM
Quote from: Kurama on June 15, 2018, 10:40:34 AM
I actually thought about checking out the africanancestry facility after hearing Chadwick speak about it. I still was uneasy about the laws/policies around genealogy testing tho, so im glad I didn't. Shit it was expensive too. Saved me some damn loot.
I wanna do more research on that just to see what other tribes I may belong to. Especially being that the maternal side is more accurate. I just know that my mom side of the Bassa tribe of West Africa who have Kemetic origin, who are people who likely left Egypt
:gorlonfire:
:stressed:
theyre stealin' dna
Quote from: Money Bag$ on June 15, 2018, 11:09:13 AM
Still nigga
(https://media.giphy.com/media/RiZpYzU7e7V3q/giphy.gif)
dddddddddddddd
but a smidge native!
(http://i39.tinypic.com/1hzea1.jpg)
Quote from: element on June 15, 2018, 12:45:46 PM
Quote from: Money Bag$ on June 15, 2018, 11:09:13 AM
Still nigga
(https://media.giphy.com/media/RiZpYzU7e7V3q/giphy.gif)
dddddddddddddd
but a smidge native!
(http://i39.tinypic.com/1hzea1.jpg)
fffff
fhhjdd
Should I even bother? The way these companies are getting exposed left and right.
My AncestryDNA mess just arrived in the mail yesterday :unsure: