DNA check

[LiveCoug]

Here is my sister's results, which I assume would be close to mine as well. My mom won't take the test, but she was born and raised in Sweden with all her ancestors in Sweden as far as we know. My dad, who is American, scored 40% Scandinavian as well, so it seems weird that combined with my born and raised Swede mother, it only came back with 43%

43% Scandinavia
31% Europe West
10% Finland/Northwest Russia
9% Ireland
3% Iberian Peninsula
2% Italy/Greece
2% Great Britain
<1% Europe East

[Donuthole]

Here is my sister's results, which I assume would be close to mine as well. My mom won't take the test, but she was born and raised in Sweden with all her ancestors in Sweden as far as we know. My dad, who is American, scored 40% Scandinavian as well, so it seems weird that combined with my born and raised Swede mother, it only came back with 43%

43% Scandinavia
31% Europe West
10% Finland/Northwest Russia
9% Ireland
3% Iberian Peninsula
2% Italy/Greece
2% Great Britain
<1% Europe East

You are more Portuguese than Surfah

[creekster]

Here is my sister's results, which I assume would be close to mine as well. My mom won't take the test, but she was born and raised in Sweden with all her ancestors in Sweden as far as we know. My dad, who is American, scored 40% Scandinavian as well, so it seems weird that combined with my born and raised Swede mother, it only came back with 43%

43% Scandinavia
31% Europe West
10% Finland/Northwest Russia
9% Ireland
3% Iberian Peninsula
2% Italy/Greece
2% Great Britain
<1% Europe East

So maybe there’s a reason she won’t take the test?

[CJF]

Mine was very close to what expected. The biggest shock was that I had more Irish than expected and less Scottish. My wife way very different from her family lore. The family story was that her great great grandfather was a monk from Turkey that came to the Philippines and started a family. Her DNA test showed she was something like 65% SE Asia and 35% Polynesia.

[Surfah]

So maybe there’s a reason she won’t take the test?

You said it. We were all thinking it.

[LiveCoug]

You said it. We were all thinking it.

My mom is super old and hates all things that interfere with her privacy. She has never been on the internet (nor has she ever touched a computer of any kind), she hates to fly and refuses to go in that new scanner that basically looks through your clothes. She is stubborn as can be and would never giver her DNA to big brother.

Or it might be what you guys are thinking. Who knows.

[CardiacCoug]

The most surprising thing for me with this was that my grandpa who had a very Italian last name who I always thought had a lot of Italian heritage was I guess barely Italian at all.

Doesn't surprise me at all that an "Iberian" would turn out to be high Scandinavian.

One of the very touchy things genetic counselors have to deal with all the time when a family comes in to figure out what's going on with their child and his genetic illness is that paternity is not what men have been led to believe. There is a lot more cuckoldry going on than most people realize.

[creekster]

One of the very touchy things genetic counselors have to deal with all the time when a family comes in to figure out what's going on with their child and his genetic illness is that paternity is not what men have been led to believe. There is a lot more cuckoldry going on than most people realize.

But that’s a different sort of comparison. It’s easy to establish whether any two individuals are related, especially as a parent and child. But it is not nearly as reliable to establish ethnic/cultural heritage.

[CardiacCoug]

But that’s a different sort of comparison. It’s easy to establish whether any two individuals are related, especially as a parent and child. But it is not nearly as reliable to establish ethnic/cultural heritage.

Sure but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say these DNA tests are a helluva lot more accurate than most people's vague assumptions about their ancestry.

[creekster]

Sure but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say these DNA tests are a helluva lot more accurate than most people's vague assumptions about their ancestry.

Probably. Except it would be a mistake to assume grandma has been lying about her background just because the test says she has some percentage of Scandinavian genes or some such. It’s more like a parlor game than anything to rely on.

[old_gregg]

Probably. Except it would be a mistake to assume grandma has been lying about her background just because the test says she has some percentage of Scandinavian genes or some such. It’s more like a parlor game than anything to rely on.

huh i always just assumed it was because great gma was such a slut

[mtnbiker]

Easy to see that any two individuals must be closely related. Much more difficult to say your background is some percentage of some ethnic group.

When my dad first did the DNA test several years ago, it had some origins in Italy (Europe South), but that later moved to the Iberian peninsula. So they are definitely refining the results.

Here's my breakdown:

Ireland/Scotland/Wales 40%
Scandinavia 21%
Iberian Peninsula 17%
Great Britain 10%
Europe East 6%

I also thought I'd have more German ancestry because my grandmother has a German maiden name. My Europe West is only 4% (low confidence).

The biggest revelation is that I fall under the "Mountain West Mormon Pioneers" "Migration".

Sure but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say these DNA tests are a helluva lot more accurate than most people's vague assumptions about their ancestry.

They're definitely continually refining the results. I know they try to find small villages around the world where the people have been fairly isolated from outside dna for about 5 generations to get a better picture of dna typical to that area. But then another village 50 miles away might demonstrate very different results.

I took an AncestryDNA test a number of years ago, and it came back as 49% Central European and 44% Scandinavian. A couple of years later the ethnicity estimate of that same test showed 68% Europe West, 12% Great Britain, and 9% Ireland/Scotland/Wales. I was in an early test of another ethnicity estimate recently, and it showed 68% Britain/Northern Europe, 22% Ireland/Scotland/Wales, and 7% Germanic Europe. My grandmother was born in Bavaria, and you'd think it would show 25% German, so every ethnicity model has its faults.

But my brother took a test, and it identified us as brothers, and a couple of 1st cousins have taken tests, and they were listed as likely 1st or 2nd cousins.

As for the genetic communities such as the Mormon Pioneer Migration, yeah, that's obvious to you, but there are quite a few communities being identified that people are not as familiar with, especially for those who don't have a 4+-generation pedigree chart.

[Pelado]

What companies have you guys used? How much does it cost?

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[cowboy]

What companies have you guys used? How much does it cost?

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I did Ancestry.com and it was $100 or so. I don't remember the exact percentages, but I'm around 40/40/20 Western European/Scandanavian/British Isles. I assumed that the Western European comes from the Normans as my lineage all comes from the British Isles and Sweden with pretty solid documentation, but we all know there were plenty of love children in the world.

[beefytee]

https://gizmodo.com/how-dna-testing-...bab-1820932637

If the messaging of consumer DNA companies more accurately reflected the science, though, it might be a lot less compelling: Spit in a tube and find out where on the planet it’s statistically probable that you share ancestry with today.