Adding to @DarrylLeroux's amazing work here, my own analysis of the documentation provided to consumers from Accumetrics revealed multiple problems and inconsistencies. https://twitter.com/DarrylLeroux/status/1253752114498736128

First, large portions of the genetic ancestry reports provided to consumers from Accumetrics appeared to be plagiarized from internet sources including Wikipedia, Geninfo, and previous versions of the Human Genome Project website.

Next, the company's ancestry reports claim to have analyzed a small portion of maternally-inherited (mtDNA) & paternally-inherited (NRY) DNA from which they calculated percentages of Indigenous ancestry. I did not see evidence that Accumetrics analyzed nuclear DNA.

Determining fractions of ancestry using mtDNA & NRY isn't feasible though. While people do get diff fractions of nuclear DNA from many diff ancestors, mtDNA & NRY are inherited as a single unit. In almost all cases, therefore, it comes from a single line of ancestors. 100% of it.

So either Accumetrics is analyzing nuclear DNA & not reporting it for some reason, or these results are fraudulent, b/c it is not possible to get fractions of ancestry (such as 12% Abenaki or 8% Mohawk) from mtDNA and NRY alone.

Another problem is, to my knowledge, there is little publicly available genetic data from some of the Indigenous groups that Accumetrics claims to have matched its consumers with. Unless they have a large private database from these communities, such comparisons aren't possible.

Even if such a reference database existed, there are no genetic sites that are diagnostic of any particular tribal group, making it impossible to use conventional genetic ancestry tests to determine someone's connections to the Abenaki, Mohawk, or any others.

Building on the pathbreaking work of @KimTallBear, researchers including myself, @JessKolopenuk, @kstsosie, @DeborahBolnick, @DarrylLeroux & many others have repeatedly pointed out that Indigenous belonging does not fall under the purview of genetic ancestry testing.