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Anyone participating in the Tapestry DNA Sequencing Research?
Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Sep 26 5:47pm | Replies (90)Comment receiving replies
Hey, I took the Tapestry DNA test not too long ago, and I’d like to bring something up (I don’t know if this is the right place to do it).
There was a decent inaccuracy with my heritage results, and I assume it’s because Tapestry’s database is still relatively small.
I’ve seen a few people in this board taking about how they were surprised by their results, and I had the same reaction. The results told me I was 12% Sardinian. My parents both took a DNA test through Ancestry after I did mine through Tapestry and neither of their results came through with Sardinian on them. Just to be sure, I retook the test through Ancestry and my results came back saying I had no Sardinian ancestry.
I’m not trying to blast Tapestry, and I am really glad Mayo reached out to me to take this test, it was a great experience. I’m just saying if you are really curious about your heritage and ancestry and want to pursue it, maybe take a test with a different company for more accurate results.
From what I can tell, the rest of the stuff Tapestry tested is accurate, it’s just the heritage stuff that appears to be a bit inaccurate.
These are my Ancestry results VS my Tapestry results
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I too did the Tapestry DNA test about a year ago. It told me I had 3% Persian (from Iran) ancestry. I do not question that since I know my grandparents were from Austria-Hungary (grandmother was Slavic and grandfather more Hungarian). Reading history, there was a lot of traffic going back and forth between Iran and Europe many centuries ago, so it does not surprise me. I actually spent 5 months in Iran back in 1961 so I wonder if I hadn't met a long lost relative!
Helix also told me I was a restless sleeper and that is accurate.
For more in depth information on ancestry, I know people who have paid and participated in other such services and gotten much more in-depth information than Tapestry - which is dedicated to medical research requiring health profile data. The ancestry info is just to more easily attract participants.