Eli5 How does DNA testing show if someone is specifically from a certain heritage like Italian or Jewish?
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They got DNA results from lots and lots of people who self-reported their heritage, and now have a large database of those. So when you do a DNA test, they compare it to the database they’ve collected earlier.
They may, indeed, ask you to self-report _your_ heritage and add _that_ data.
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