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The 1,000 Genomes Project snubbed Malaya Irredenta

The 1,000 Genomes Project caught my attention when DNA Land did not report even 1% of Malayan genes in my ancestry profile. Instead, I was "clasified" as 38% Taiwanese and 22% Thai/Cambodian.

It appears that DNA Land is just relying on the ethnic classifications generated by this project. And this project did not create a separate classification for people of Malayan extraction.

So, how can you get an accurate picture of the world's ancestry profile if you fail to create a distinct classification for an ethnic group which numbers at least 300 million? And which, by the way, is the core population of ASEAN (before ASEAN, there was MAPHILINDO)? And is the majority ethnic group in Southeast Asia?

Yet, they were able to create a separate classification for the Native Taiwanese, whose remaining population is only about 500,000.

So now, if you are a member of Malaya Irredenta and decides to get an ancestry DNA profile using data generated by this project, you will never have your Malayan roots confirmed. Instead, you will be told that you are Taiwanese and/or Thai/Cambodian.

Is this an honest scholarly mistake or is this a subtle attempt to rewrite the ethnic profile of Southeast Asia?

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