Consumer DNA testing is going to the dogs . A Canadian testing troupe has been accused of sending back supposedly human ancestry results on a false sample that actually came from a chihuahua named Snoopy , CBC NewsreportedWednesday . Remarkably , it ’s the second companyreportedto have been fooled by doggy DNA in recent calendar month , but the full story behind the confidence trick is even weirder .
The company in question , Viaguard Accu - Metrics , has been exclusively used to verify whether prospective phallus of the Confederation of Aboriginal People of Canada ( CAPC ) have any genetic ties to the autochthonous populations of Canada . Those who were confirmed to have indigenous DNA via the science laboratory ’s results are then hand CAPC rank . The results would supposedly not only support someone ’s ancestry , but narrow down which tribes of the First Nations community they belonged to .
But Louis Côté , who worked with CAPC to collect desoxyribonucleic acid sample from hopeful phallus , became leery of the lab . So grant to CBC News , Côté bought three outfit from Viaguard himself last summer , then subject two brass swabs from himself and one from his lady friend ’s good son , Snoopy .
The results demonstrate that both he and Snoopy seemingly had 20 per centum Indigenous origin , 12 percent of which come from the Abenaki federation of tribes and 8 percent from the Mohawk people .
“ I recollect it was a joke , ” Côté told CBC News . “ The company is put on hoi polloi … the tests are no good . ”
CBC News croak one step further and relegate samples from three of their employees who were indigen of India and Russia , severally , to both Viaguard and the US - found and popular DNA testing company 23andMe . To 23andMe ’s credit , its research lab seemed to correctly identify the employee ’ entirely Eurasian stemma , but Viaguard again aver all three had 20 percent autochthonous desoxyribonucleic acid , and in the exact same mix that Côté and Snoopy purportedly had .
CAPC , meanwhile , has been accused by former members and endemic law enforcement official of run a grift . member are given wit that attend similar to the government - issued position cards that reserve hoi polloi legally declared to have endemic blood line to get tax exemption on sure ware . Kahnawake Mohawk Peacekeepers in the Montreal region have reportedly seize a hundred of these cards from CAPC members trying to pass them off as the true clause .
deoxyribonucleic acid testing , amazingly enough , is not used by the Canadian ( or American ) government to figure out someone ’s potential Native American stemma , and the experts consulted by CBC News say there ’s no consumer DNA test that could possibly determine someone ’s specific necktie to a First Nation kin group .
[ CBC News ]
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