You cannot look at a person's genes and say with any accuracy whether they are from one racial group or another.
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Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.
To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.
Many people believe that determining who is 'black' is rather easy, a task simplified by the administration of the one-drop rule. Under the one-drop rule, any discernible African ancestry stamps a person as 'black.'
Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.
Accuracy in the genetic field will be essential. Errors in testing could be disastrous.
People are comprised of sets of DNA from each parent. If you looked at just the DNA from your father, it wouldn't tell you who you really are.
I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about genetic information and what you can and cannot learn.
I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they're a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person.
What if I told you every single person in America - every single person on Earth - is African? With a small scrape of cells from the inside of anyone's cheek, the science of genetics can even prove it.
Race has no genetic or scientific basis.