GENETICS:
The Science and Business of Genetic Ancestry Testing
Deborah A. Bolnick,1* Duana Fullwiley,2 Troy Duster,3,4 Richard S. Cooper,5 Joan H. Fujimura,6 Jonathan Kahn,7 Jay S. Kaufman,8 Jonathan Marks,9 Ann Morning,3 Alondra Nelson,10 Pilar Ossorio,11 Jenny Reardon,12 Susan M. Reverby,13 Kimberly TallBear14,15
Commercially available tests of genetic ancestry have significant scientific limitations, but are serious matters for many test-takers.
1Department of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA
2Departments of Anthropology and African and African-American Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA;
3Department of Sociology, New York University, New York, NY
4Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, CA
5Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL
6Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
7Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, MN
8Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC
9Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC
10Departments of Sociology and African American Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT
11University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, WI
12Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
13Department of Women's Studies, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
14Department of American Indian Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
15Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, and Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, CA; USA
*Author for correspondence. E-mail: deborah.bolnick{at}mail.utexas.edu
