do you follow the current scientific literature please try not to sound so ridiculous when you are accusing others it has a bad reflection on your own comments nevertheless recent research indicates that self described race is a near perfect indicator of an individual's genetic profile at least in the united states using genetic markers tang et al identified genetic clusters among individuals sampled from locations in the united states and were able to correctly assign individuals to groups that correspond with their self described race white african american east asian or hispanic for all but individuals an error rate of they conclude that ancient ancestry which correlates tightly with self described race and not current residence is the major determinant of genetic structure in the u s population