Yes! Although we get 50% of mom and dad, we don’t know WHICH 50%. So unless one
of our parents is 100% something, we’re going to inherit different percentages
of various ethnicities. My DNA just popped up 3% Ashkenazi Jewish (which was a
surprise in this incredibly WASP family), which doesn’t show up in my siblings’
DNA at all.
As for implications for our work, I suspect the complexity of this is all
beyond our ability to parse, even if the science completely catches up (which
it hasn’t yet). Our sense of being entangled in an ancestor’s suffering, for
instance - How much of that is genetic? How much of that is systemic? How much
of it is communicated via the abuse or suffering we receive as children? And
why do we resonate with this bit of our ancestry, and not that bit? At that
point I think we go into the math and science of complexity. Which is kind of
nice, as it throws us back to the phenomenological part of our work, and look
for the resonances within the system as evidenced in the constellation,
wherever that takes us. ;-)
Cool stuff Michael!
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On Mar 24, 2018, at 5:19 AM, Michael Reddy michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[ConstellationTalk] <ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
Someone sent me this short article from National Geographic.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/dna-ancestry-test-siblings-different-results-genetics-science/
It says that, because of the way sperm and egg cells are created, “ancestry”
(meaning things like “French,” “Lebanese,” “Irish,” etc) gets shuffled, to the
point where even fraternal twins can have significantly different DNA.
Speaking about two male twins, it says
"Kat, for example, has 13 percent genetic ancestry from Italy and Greece, while
Eddy has 23 percent, according to the tests. (By contrast, these six strangers
have roughly the same genetic ancestry)
Has anybody on this list already heard about this and perhaps asked if it means
anything to our work?
Is it possibly a partial reason why one sibling might inherit more impacts
from, say, the potato Irish famine than another one?
My mother always told me I was “half German, 3/8th Irish, 1/16th French, and
1/16th Scotch.” But perhaps those proportions are not that accurate?
Best,
Michael
Michael Reddy, PhD, CPC
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