Mike...I'm certain they are aware that the needs and desires of an AncestryByDNA customer are different from those of a police agency. I would refer you to the PR announcing the upgrade to DNAWitness 2.5:
The original DNAWitness(TM) 2.0 test was capable of reporting the percentage of "European," "western sub-Saharan African," "East Asian" and "Native American" admixture from a crime scene sample, where the colloquial terms in quotes represent ancestry traced to four of the major phlyogeographic clades that constitute the human family tree. The upgraded version of the test, DNAWitness(TM) 2.5 is capable of doing the same, but in addition can determine whether a donor of primarily European admixture is of continental European, Middle Eastern or Indo-Pakistani origin, or whether an East Asian's major ethnic affiliation is Northern (Chinese/Japanese), Central Asian or South East Asian.
You might ask yourself, if they can do this with Witness, why haven't they announced the availablity of this information to their Ancestry customers. Probably for reasons as you have cited.
BTW, this would indicate that the current test, DNAWitness 2.5, is already capable of 8 distinctions.
Later,
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