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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled Thursday that children whose parents had activated DNA test kits for them on Ancestry.com were not bound to Ancestry's arbitration agreement, ...

Where do the source datasets come from for DNA-based heritage tests like Ancestry or 23andMe? Whose DNA was used to define each heritage or ancestry group? originally appeared on Quora: the place to ...