23andMe Adds More Detail for Spanish and Portuguese Ancestry

[Shuzam87]

https://blog.23andme.com/articles/23...guese-ancestry

"For 23andMe customers with Portuguese ancestry, the update most commonly includes matches to the regions of Porto, Minho, and Via Real, as well as Central and Southern Portugal and Madeira. The least common regions for matching are Terceira, Santa Maria and Flores, Corvo, and Graciosa in the Azores. For customers with Spanish ancestry the most common matches will be to Western Andalusia (near Huelva, Seville, and Badajoz), and Southern Andalusia (near Cadiz), as well as to the Canary Islands. The least common regions are Galician and Basque associated regions in northern Spain."

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[Luso]

I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out

[rober_tce]

Interesting!! So we’ll wait to receive new genetic groups results

[MatAust21]

Congrats to our Iberian friends!

I hope 23andme eventually extends this to other parts of Europe, even though I probably wouldn't get any of these new regions for myself, as it appears you need to be somewhat homogenous, and I'm too mixed between French & German, Italian, and Eastern European.

[DEM4867]

For my grandmother (Sephardic Jew born in Morocco). I think Malaga makes sense it had an important Jewish community like many other Andalusian cities. This is exciting though.

[Freb]

I'm guessing what they mean by "genetic groups" is in fact are regions and not really "groups".

[Luso]

Got mine:



Bit boring...

[omgpeeps]

Looks cool! Somehow I'm hoping I'll get one even though I know there's probably a 99% or greater chance I won't get one

[omgpeeps]

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[omgpeeps]

Congrats to our Iberian friends!

I hope 23andme eventually extends this to other parts of Europe, even though I probably wouldn't get any of these new regions for myself, as it appears you need to be somewhat homogenous, and I'm too mixed between French & German, Italian, and Eastern European.

I'm hoping so as well!