re: Warren has HALF as much Native American DNA as the average European-American

And, of course, she might just be 1/1024 South American and have 0/1,024 Native American ancestry...

Per the Boston Globe:

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Detecting DNA for Native Americans is particularly tricky because there is an absence of Native American DNA available for comparison.

This is in part because Native American leaders have asked tribal members not to participate in genetic databases. “The tribes have felt they have been exploited,” explained Lawrence Brody, a senior investigator with the Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch at the National Institutes of Health.

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