23andMe has a problem when it comes to ancestry reports for people of color

23andMe has a problem when it comes to ancestry reports for people of color

I did a 23andMe genetic test because I suspected I might be partially descended from Middle-Eastern medieval merchants, who were Korea’s first Occidental trading partners. (My feeble basis for this theory included my hair texture and a possible epigenetic explanation for my Jewish conversion.) But the data took me in some strange directions. As did…