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The pitfalls of tracing your ancestry

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Charmaine Royal of the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy explains the limitations of genetic testing.

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  1. Brendan Maher
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Maher, B. The pitfalls of tracing your ancestry. Nature (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2008.1227

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