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DNA update

(28 Posts)
Grammaretto Thu 25-Aug-22 11:18:18

I guess so but I think it's more to do with the fact that more Americans with Irish heritage are testing and so the gene pool/database grows.
I've already discovered that a distant Irish cousin was a very active sperm donor in the USA in the 1960s so literally hundreds of cousins appear from that source grin

BlueBelle Thu 25-Aug-22 11:07:32

Mine has changed too and I m now a quarter Scandinavian Well it’s not the dna changing but the sophistication of the testing being able to pick up more minute traces I m presuming
Fine tune it in other words

Grammaretto Thu 25-Aug-22 10:54:59

My DNA ethnicity was updated yesterday on Ancestry and I am now more Irish than before. They say my DNA doesn't alter but that the way it's interpreted is.
Has anyone else been puzzled by their changes?