The Amarna article is the only instance where DNAtribes points to allele values and profiles that can be independently verified. They merely referenced Hawass (2010). Pusch is the geneticist team leader of the study. Hawass just slapped his name onto the report.
Now maybe somebody should have checked the Amarna mummy profiles across nuclear DNA STR databases but that innovation came out of DNAtribes. This is their one accomplishment and it does paint an inner African ancient Egypt conflicting with their "Levantine" modern Egypt.
Anybody can take the Pusch raw data and input it into a profile finder. Anybody can verify the accuracy of DNAtribes proprietary MLI list assignments to DNAtribes' own privately defined African regions. How? By means of open access genetics/ forensics tools and a map of Africa and with some knowledge of where ethnies live.
All of that is beside the point of DNAtribes as itself a reliable issuer of science reports vs a company writing articles for its customers. Moral of the story: DNAtribes' articles are not in the same room with the standard peer reviewed published studies and reports shared by population genetics community. Their articles are not cited in any scientific literature. Why?
Other than the Amarna Pharaohs article DNAtribes has never revealed the allele values and loci profiles associated with either its privately defined geographies or the populations therein. And we only know about Amarna because of Pusch. DNAtribes did not reprint Pusch's mummy profiles. .
DNAtribes offers no Materials & Methods section in their articles because they do no assays. They only run a statistician's algorithm against entries in their database and figures taken from other existing databanks or from the standard peer reviewed literature. .
DNAtribes privately defined geographies at times veer from standard geography. Prime examples are - Egypt as the Levant - Ionian as Aegean - Mediterranean as exclusively Iberia, Alps, and Apenninies .
DNAtribes phylogeny of North Africa and the Horn as Near Eastern branches of Caucasian (West Eurasian) hierarchical world region clustering -- their words not mine.
There are many other anomalies others may list, i.e., DNAtribes' Portuguese, Italian, and Greek [all the above underscores are links to go read] articles among other Africana related articles, if this thread takes off. The thing is DNAtribes is as good as any proprietary genetic identity enquiry for the general public company.
They should not be confused for and just are not in the ranks of professional not-for-profit population geneticists who tabulate and share sample numbers, ethnicity, language group, geography, STR alleles and profiles, SNP haplogroups, and other essential raw data with the public.
None of that has anything to do with plugging Pusch's mummy data into a profile finder and attaining geographic and/or ethnic matches to compile a list of most likely candidates.
Despite all their other failings I am glad DNAtribes thought of doing that and writing an article about it and Amarna in general.
Thanks to DNAtribes' innovation we will all now start designing our own STR allele/profile queries investigating any number of population subsets of our Africana and other interests.
Posted by xyyman (Member # 13597) on :
Well put. Bravo!!
Quote: Thanks to DNAtribes' innovation we will all now start designing our own STR allele/profile queries investigating any number of population subsets of our Africana and other interests. Posted by Smiley Coast (Member # 19957) on :
So whose gonna do it, when and how? Posted by the lioness (Member # 17353) on :
This is an important and highly sophisticated thread.
(also in- a lioness intelligence report demostrated that Tukuler is an alTakruri alias for those who didn't know.)
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