Navigating narratives of genetic categorization at the frayed edges of identity

IF 1.3 4区医学 Q4 BIOTECHNOLOGY & APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

New Genetics and Society Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI:10.1080/14636778.2022.2137121

Karen Ann Blom

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Abstract

History can be described as a story, or narrative reporting on past events to create meaning and explanation for the present/future. Narratives of genetic history are presented in the genetic ancestry testing (GAT) results specifically maps, percentages, and related information to consumers expecting “answers” related to identity and belonging. Engaging in thematic narrative analysis I ask how GAT results’ narratives use ethnicity/race/nationality to categorize sameness/difference and what these narratives inform about group boundaries through the comparison of online result materials received from four GAT companies: 23andMe, Ancestry, MyHeritage, and FamilyTreeDNA. These results are presented as an in-between space where bio-historic-cultural contents are negotiated with previous knowledge/experiences. This study found results narrate dichotomies of “self” and others, individual and collective, personal and private, and the present and the historical, and serves to highlight problematic perceptions of genetics history as an essential/unchanging product, reducing and ignoring diversity within and moving between groups.

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在身份的磨损边缘导航基因分类的叙述

历史可以被描述为一个故事，或者是对过去事件的叙述，为现在/未来创造意义和解释。基因历史的叙述呈现在基因祖先测试(GAT)结果中，特别是地图，百分比和相关信息，以满足消费者对身份和归属的“答案”的期望。通过对四家GAT公司(23andMe、Ancestry、MyHeritage和FamilyTreeDNA)的在线结果材料进行比较，我想知道GAT结果的叙述是如何使用种族/种族/国籍来对相同/差异进行分类的，以及这些叙述对群体边界的影响。这些结果呈现为一个中间空间，其中生物历史文化内容与以前的知识/经验相协调。本研究发现，结果叙述了“自我”和他人、个人和集体、个人和私人、现在和历史的二分法，并突出了将遗传历史视为基本/不变的产物的问题观念，减少和忽视了群体内部和群体之间的多样性。

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New Genetics and Society 生物-生物工程与应用微生物

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4.30

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16.70%

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>12 weeks

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