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The Review of The Non-Sub Saharan African Regions of My AncestryDNA Ethnicity Estimate

 I want to go over the non-Sub Saharan African in my AncestryDNA Ethnicity Estimate.  This is to show why parent-child DNA phasing is essential.  The problems of not phasing becomes obvious if a person has a vast majority of specific continental ancestry that comes from parent that has tested.  I take ethnic analyses with a strong grain of salt and focus mainly on DNA relative matches.  I do think that knowing the continental ancestries are helpful, but I am skeptical of the breakdown of each continental ancestry because of all the mixing that went on in people in the continents throughout history going back to highly ancient times. I am especially skeptical of the European continental breakdown with my longtime reading of the history of the mixing of populations in Europe. After getting and reading 'Ancestry Reimagined: Dismantling the Myth of Genetic Ethnicities' by Kostas Kampourakis,  I even question these ethnicity estimates even more.  Kampouraki...