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Here's the response from our scientist who developed the algorithm underlying ancestry painting: "There's no case that I've seen where 9% Asian ancestry does not indicate genuine East Asian or Native American ancestry. I've looked at order thousands of individuals of known ancestry, that approximately cover the gamut of human diversity. Thus I ... See Morewould regard 9% as a reliable indication of East Asian or Native American ancestry." That said, 9% is close to the threshold above which the following statement can be made, so it is still theoretically possible, albeit very unlikely, that the prediction is not true.

Thank you. That is very helpful information. I feel more comfortable accepting the results as reliable. I took a DNA Print test in 2006 that indicated no Asian/Native American ancestry. Maybe their test wasn't as sophisticated as yours. What is the value of the "threshold" that you indicated 9percent was close to?

We have sent an email to all our genotyped users when Relative Finder launched. We are also working on adding ability to contact people who have not opted in, look for it to be available some time in January.

That would be good. I never got any email from you regarding the relative finder. The only email i got was when you announced the Health edition and the Ancestry edition.

Apologies - the info above is wrong. We will send out an email to all our users about Relative Finder in January, coinciding with the feature update.

Welcome to the service! We hope you will find our test useful and educational, it's certainly a treasure trove of genetic genealogy data. If you end up writing up your experience, please share it with us!

I bet a webinar about Relative Finder would drive sales and get more people who have 23andMe results to use it. If you attached a discount for participants the word would spread quickly.

If you show the advantage to testing multiple family members you would also show the value of your multi kit discount.

Great idea, I passed it along. By the way, you may be pleased to know that your recent blog post that we put out on twitter yesterday quickly became one of our most popular links (91 clicks). Thank you!

Thank you for the great work 23andMe does for genetic genealogy.

Larry Vick is very active on 23andme's forums and elsewhere on the internet.

In addition to Paul Wrights comment there are other DNA services out here, why is yours better? do you have a comparison chart? thank you.

Quit spewing venom over 23andme! It's all about what it's worth - to me it's been worth every cent!! Thanks 23andme, you're awesome - keep up the good work!!

You are welcome! We are always working on adding more actionable reports - drug response, carrier status, etc.

Thanks 23andMe :)

Take a look a the ABO Blood Type Lab in the Health Labs section, it may be what you are looking for.

I think it was non-abo..

https://www.23andme.com/you/labs/abo/