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For African Americans, DNA Tests Reveal Just a Small Part of a Complicated Ancestry

It took nearly 30 minutes for Eric Depradine to extract a saliva sample from his dying grandmother. Depradine, 35, of Kansas City, wanted to have his grandmother’s DNA tested to confirm his suspicions that her ancestors came from Madagascar. He’d read author Michael Twitty describe in “The Cooking Gene” how African Americans who lived in […]