A US Senator seen as a top contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 has released a DNA test providing "strong evidence" that she has Native American ancestry after her claims had been mocked by Donald Trump, a report said Monday.
Elizabeth Warren, a leading voice from the left of her party, has been derisively called "Pocahontas" by the president and accused of lying about her heritage in order to gain advantages in her career including a plum teaching job at Harvard.
But an analysis of her DNA performed by Stanford University professor Carlos D Bustamante concluded that while "the vast majority" of Warren's ancestry is European, "the results strongly support the existence of an unadmixed Native American ancestor," the Boston Globe reported.
Bustamente calculated that Warren's Native American ancestor appeared in her family tree "in the range of 6-10 generations ago."
At a campaign-style rally in July Trump revived the attack in a challenge to Warren: "I will give you a million dollars to your favorite charity, paid for by Trump, if you take the test and it shows you're an Indian."
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