A 25-year-old woman born and raised in Hawaii got a big surprise when she learned the results of a $100 DNA test.
Shirley Huang, 25, whose parents immigrated from China and now lives in California, decided she wanted to learn more about her lineage last month.
In an attempt to get a comprehensive result, she opted for a 23andMe test and shared her results in a TikTok video.
The video, which has racked up more than two million views, revealed that Huang is 100 percent Chinese and that several generations of her family originate solely from Guangdong province.
She later said she was surprised because she expected to be of mixed Asian descent due to China’s proximity to other countries.
Shirley Huang, 25, who emigrated from China with her parents as a child and now lives in California, decided she wanted to learn more about her lineage last month.
Huang later said she opted for an ancestry test because her parents “didn’t know much” and both of her grandparents had died before she was born.
Sharing her results, she said: ‘I remember laughing at the surprise of being completely Chinese. (I) didn’t know it was possible to be 100 percent anything on a DNA test.
“It turns out my ancestors were from (Guangdong) and never left, making my parents the first generation to move from southern China,” he said. Newsweek Magazine.
After her results went viral on the video-sharing app, others also began sharing their hilarious ancestry testing stories.
“I went into 23andme knowing I was Filipino and white and left knowing I had 50 percent of each, except for the exact regions I was hoping to see,” one TikToker shared through tears.
While another said: ‘When my aunt did this, she said we were 98 percent Irish and 2 percent Scandinavian, and she started telling everyone we were Scandinavian.’
She later said she was surprised because she expected to be of mixed Asian descent due to China’s proximity to other countries.
Huang is 100 percent Chinese, with several generations of her family originating solely from Guangdong province.
One viewer also shared with a laugh: ‘My dad and his brothers are 100 percent Finnish. My mom and her brothers are 100 percent Inuit. My sisters and I are 52/48, 55/45, and 47/53 in some ways! Haha.
Some other TikTokers also joked that Huang had wasted money on the test and how he got the “perfect score.”
“If you’re children of immigrants, me and 23 are just a waste of $100, lol,” one viewer joked.
While another said: ‘BROTHER, THE FIRST THING MY PARENTS SAID WAS ‘I COULD HAVE TOLD YOU THAT FOR FREE’.
Huang later said she opted for an ancestry test because her parents “didn’t know much” and both of her grandparents had died before she was born.
She also clarified that her father had also been recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and diabetes and she was interested in knowing if she was a carrier of the same genes.
According to a picture of her health results, she did not possess the gene for any of the chronic diseases.
“I’m so glad I got tested because it gave me valuable information about my ancestry, health and traits that I wouldn’t have known about otherwise,” she said.