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The First DNA Test as Political Stunt

“Who cares,” the president said about Senator Elizabeth Warren’s results.
Source: Brian Snyder / Reuters

Has there ever been such an elaborate rollout for the results of a DNA test?

On Monday morning, Elizabeth Warren—Massachusetts senator, —unveiled a with five videos featuring interviews of family, friends, students, former colleagues, and the Stanford geneticist Carlos Bustamante. Republicans , a Democrat, of faking American Indian ancestry to advance her career. (There is .) On the matter of her DNA, Bustamante tells her in the video, “the facts suggest that you absolutely have a

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