White nationalists are flocking to genetic ancestry tests. Some don’t like what they find

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That's not uncommon: With the rise of spit-in-a-cup genetic testing, there's a trend of white nationalists using these services to prove their racial identity, and then using online forums to discuss the results.

The team winnowed their results down to 70 discussion threads in which 153 users posted their genetic ancestry test results, with over 3,000 individual posts.

"There is a mainstream critical literature on genetic ancestry tests - geneticists and anthropologists and sociologists who have said precisely those things: that these tests give an illusion of certainty, but once you know how the sausage is made, you should be much more cautious about these results," said Panofsky.

The protocol includes genetic material from thousands of individuals, and looks at thousands of genetic variations.

Users' ancestry results can change depending on the dataset to which their genetic material is being compared - a fact which some Stormfront users said they took advantage of, uploading their data to various sites to get a more "White" result.

J. Scott Roberts, an associate professor at the University of Michigan, who has studied consumer use of genetic tests and was not involved with the study, said the companies tend to be reliable at identifying genetic variants.

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