Elizabeth Warren's ex-husband founded DNA testing company

[mystery-ak]

Elizabeth Warren's ex-husband founded DNA testing company
by Robert Donachie
 | October 19, 2018 02:48 PM



Sen. Elizabeth Warren's ex-husband co-founded a DNA testing company and wrote one of the first computer codes for making genetic comparisons.

Jim Warren's career involved him in the kinds of genetic testing that Elizabeth Warren controversially invoked this month to prove that she had Native American ancestry.

One of the two other co-founders of his testing company, FamilyTreeDNA, has worked with Carlos Bustamante, the Stanford University geneticist who administered a DNA test at Elizabeth Warren's request.

Bustamante, a Stanford University geneticist, conducted the test, which Elizabeth Warren used to respond to President Trump's "Pocahontas" taunt and his mockery of her previous claim to be a Native American while a professor at Harvard Law School in the 1990s. Warren's roll-out of the test results was widely seen as a sign that she is running for president in 2020.

Rather than using a commercial service to conduct her DNA test, Warren hired Bustamante, 43, who appears in the video explaining the test and in a scene in which the Massachusetts senator telephones his office and asks to speak with him. Warren received considerable criticism for the test, which found that her Native American heritage stretch back six to 10 generations, making her between 1/64th and 1/1024th Native American.

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[truth_seeker]

This injun lady, just don't give up.

No offense intended towards real injuns.

The average American, has more injun blood than Lizzy "Little Liar," has.


Several DNA "engines," aka "algorithms, exist.


So by all means, run her sample against each and every possible source.

What ifher only match, is some tribe in Tierra del Fuego?

[Slide Rule]

Evidently Jim Warren reneged on the full blooded Cherokee promise.

:)

[RoosGirl]

I can picture Jim as a long-term planner, feeding poor Elizabeth information that he knows she'll eventually use and waiting, waiting, waiting for that dish to be served up ice cold, yet served up nonetheless. 

[mountaineer]

Rather than using a commercial service to conduct her DNA test, Warren hired Bustamante

Rather than do a true, legitimate DNA test, where the analyst wouldn't know in advance what result the client sought ...

[Elderberry]

Family Tree DNA is who tested my DNA.

It is the most popular company worldwide for Y-DNA and mitochondrial DNA, and the third most popular for autosomal DNA. In Europe, it is the most common also for autosomal DNA

[IsailedawayfromFR]

With a wife like Liz, I understand why he is an ex.

[Dexter]

This truly is the most silly controversy on both ends. If I was Elizabeth Warren I would just admit that I exaggerated my status in an attempt to gain a small advantage. I really don't think it's that big of a deal.

[Wingnut]

You just can't make this stuff up.   Liawatha's ex brave does DNA testing?

[RoosGirl]

This truly is the most silly controversy on both ends. If I was Elizabeth Warren I would just admit that I exaggerated my status in an attempt to gain a small advantage. I really don't think it's that big of a deal.

Nonsense. If she thought it would be only a small advantage she wouldn't have:
1) lied about it in the first place
2) continued to lie once caught.

Oh yes, this is a big a big deal.

[Dexter]

Nonsense. If she thought it would be only a small advantage she wouldn't have:
1) lied about it in the first place
2) continued to lie once caught.

Oh yes, this is a big a big deal.

How big of an advantage is it? I honestly don't know. I doubt extremely unqualified people get to be there because of a minority status. The big deal is that she's not acting with integrity after the fact. I think what she initially did is peanuts, but trying to bullshit everybody for years is not peanuts.

[RoosGirl]

How big of an advantage is it? I honestly don't know. I doubt extremely unqualified people get to be there because of a minority status. The big deal is that she's not acting with integrity after the fact. I think what she initially did is peanuts, but trying to bullshit everybody for years is not peanuts.

Umm....helloooo?  You remember 8 years of Obama, right?

[Sanguine]

How big of an advantage is it? I honestly don't know. I doubt extremely unqualified people get to be there because of a minority status. The big deal is that she's not acting with integrity after the fact. I think what she initially did is peanuts, but trying to bullshit everybody for years is not peanuts.

I understood she was touted as the "first Native American law professor" at Harvard.

From Wikipedia:

In April 2012, The Boston Globe sparked a campaign controversy by reporting that from 1986 to 1995 Warren had listed herself as a racial minority in the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Directory of Law Teachers.[33] Harvard Law School had identified Warren as a "woman of color" in response to criticisms about a lack of faculty diversity.[34][35] Scott Brown, her Republican opponent in the Senate race, accused Warren of fabricating Native American heritage to gain advantage in the job market.[36][37][38]

[endicom]

You know, if her ex was Cherokee then she did have a little in her.

[Dexter]

Umm....helloooo?  You remember 8 years of Obama, right?

I don't know that Elizabeth was unqualified to be a Harvard professor. I think it's entirely possible that she would have gotten the job either way. She's a smart lady whether you like her politics or not. If she runs for the Democrats it would be a very bad idea to underestimate her.

[goodwithagun]

You know, if her ex was Cherokee then she did have a little in her.

My nose is burning from the red wine that just shot out of it 

[Dexter]

I understood she was touted as the "first Native American law professor" at Harvard.

Yeah, that's silly.

[Wingnut]

You know, if her ex was Cherokee then she did have a little in her.

I like the cut of your jib.