Some Background Finally
HealthyWay reached out to 23andMe so that they could interrupt the triplet’s results. “It’s a misleading story,” a spokesperson told the magazine in an email. “Our Ancestry Composition feature allows you to select varying confidence levels, between 50-90 percent.”
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“In this case I believe they were changing their confidence levels and making comparisons,” their spokesperson carried on to say. “If you drop to the ‘speculative’ selection, which has a confidence level of 50 percent you are going throw off the comparisons. Even when they did that, there wasn’t that great of a difference.”