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According to an autosomal DNA study ( the autosomal study is about the sum of the ancestors of a person, unlike mtDNA or yDNA haplogroup studies, who cover only one single line ), the " pardos " in Rio de Janeiro were found to be predominantly European, at roughly 70 % ( see table ).

The geneticist Sérgio Pena criticised foreign scholar Edward Telles for lumping " blacks " and " pardos " in the same category, given the predominant European ancestry of the " pardos " throughout Brazil.

According to him, " the autosomal genetic analysis that we have performed in non related individuals from Rio de Janeiro shows that it does not make any sense to put " blacks " and " pardos " in the same category ".