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    DNA Q&A Reliability of DNA Tests

    Apr 21, 2020 2 minutes
    Diahan Southard

    Q How reliable is the information from DNA tests?

    A Remember: There are two parts to your DNA results. You receive information connecting you to locations (ethnicity results), as well as to other people (DNA matches). We have to talk about these two kinds of data differently.

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