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We simply fool ourselves, or our family does, into thinking one way or another and then a DNA test shatters the myth. I don't think any one racial group has cornered the market on the mythology of pure or mixed ancestry. I'm German/Pomeranian, Ukrainian, Irish, and colonial English/Dutch and that is a lot to sort through. I have Black DNA cousins at some genetic distance and a bit curious how that came about but there are too many branches on both sides to find a match.
One of the most bizarre angles to this is the many people who are upset that they have no Indian ancestry. The story that great-great-grandma was a Cherokee Princess is a myth? How could that be? (How many Cherokee Princesses were there?)
The CEO of 23&me admitted to adding african percentages to white peoples DNA reports regardless of whether it is true or not....these tests are scams, folks.
The CEO of 23&me admitted to adding african percentages to white peoples DNA reports regardless of whether it is true or not....these tests are scams, folks.
Well, he didn't add any to mine or my sister in law's. We are 100 percent "white folks." Totally uncool.
I did find out though that I am apparently part Finnish, which I didn't know so that was sort of interesting.
Both my great-grandparents on both sides were born in Italy so I would be rather surprised if we had black ancestry. However, it wouldn't bother me if it turned out I did.
The CEO of 23&me admitted to adding african percentages to white peoples DNA reports regardless of whether it is true or not....these tests are scams, folks.
Whats funny about this rumor is 23&me and AncestryDNA only test complete strand segments while FTDNA and MyHeritage test ever bit of your SNP's so the first 2 companies are actually less likely to show your COMPLETE admixture so if anything shows up 1% or more on those tests it's really gonna be there and may actually be a higher percentage than shown.
Whats funny about this rumor is 23&me and AncestryDNA only test complete strand segments while FTDNA and MyHeritage test ever bit of your SNP's so the first 2 companies are actually less likely to show your COMPLETE admixture so if anything shows up 1% or more on those tests it's really gonna be there and may actually be a higher percentage than shown.
I'm not sure what you mean by "every bit of your SNPs"? All the companies include individual SNPs in the raw data - and none of those you mention include your full genome. They all include different amounts of SNPs, which you can see on these charts how many and how much overlap they each have:
For whole genome sequencing, you'd have to test at someplace like Illumina, or Dante Labs (there's many others) - and I don't think (correct me if I'm wrong) they provide admixture, just the raw data.
And how exactly the raw data gets analyzed into an ethnicity report may vary by the company - they certainly have different algorithms, but I believe the principle is the same, and they all use SNP combinations, because single, individual SNPs on their own are not unique enough geographically to be at all reliably used for admixture.
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Well, he didn't add any to mine or my sister in law's. We are 100 percent "white folks." Totally uncool.
I did find out though that I am apparently part Finnish, which I didn't know so that was sort of interesting.
99.8% European on mine (.1% sub Saharan African & .1% unknown)...would be cool to have something else "exotic" but nope (only .2% Scandinavian). It did show 2% Italian & 1.2% Spain & Portugal though which may be more than background noise?
The rest was expected...Mom is Polish...Dad is English/German. For me...51% Polish, 22% English, & 17% German...the rest was "broadly Northwestern European".
A neat test though...amazing how accurate they are!
Interesting but too many posts had to be deleted so this is closed so that it won't go downhill again.
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