23andMe Ancestry Composition Results

[Scarlet Ibis]

My mom's results:

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[DMXX]

I am entirely Middle-Eastern on mine (99.1%). Looks like this is only going to be informative for Europeans or those of continental mixes.

[Edit]: Note that the "Middle-East" here, for whatever reason, is Syria, Turkey and Iran. Not sure what this grouping was based on.

[Little bit]

The most verifiable in my group is my Polish mother-in-law, all 4 GP traced as being Kashubian:


The Eastern European get's inherited by her son and our kids in a nice, intuitive way:
Her son: 51.7% E Euro
Our son: 30.7% E Euro
Our daughter: 26.2% E Euro

The rest of us with Irish, English, and German get more Nonspecific Northern European than anything. Here's my mom with an Irish grandparent, English grandparent, German grandparent, and American colonial (Euro) grandparent:


I saw someone note on a 23andme thread that French and German percentages are low and may get fixed, so we'll see. The most exciting part for me is that after almost 4 years of looking for the genetic fingerprint of my father through my DNA, I may have it:


I verified the Scandinavian from him because all my Scandinavian RF cousins come from him. The Native American was unknown before now: never showed up before and frankly at that level is probably untraceable, and maybe just noise?

[DMXX]

After checking a few of the results it seems like the "Middle-Eastern" category here is basically equivalent to "West Asian" on ADMIXTURE runs.

The Arabian peninsular sharing contacts I have score as a mix of North African and Middle-Eastern, whereas Iranians tend to predominantly be Middle-Eastern.

[Clinton P]

Here is my ‘Ancestry Composition’. Accurate, but boring.

Speculative
99.8% British and Irish
0.1% Finnish
0.1% Nonspecific Northern European

Standard
99.6% British and Irish
0.4% Nonspecific Northern European

Conservative
95.0% British and Irish
3.7% Nonspecific Northern European
1.2% Nonspecific European

Clinton P

[Silesian]

Three generations; 23andMe Ancestry Composition Speculative estimate Results:

Silesia Poland-1st father
Eastern European-77.9%
French-German-4%
British-Irish-1.3%
Non specific Northern European-7.5%
Sardinian-0.1%
Nonspecific Southern European-2.5%
Nonspecific European-6.5%
Middle Eastern and North African-0.2%

Polish-German mix/2nd generation son
Eastern European-64.7%
French-German-9.7%
British-Irish-2.4%
Nonspecific Northern European-8.9%
Balkan-3.9%
Nonspecific Southern European-3.6%
Nonspecific European-6.8%


Polish-German-Irish-U.K./3rd generation grandson
French-German-17.6%%
British-Irish-16.7%
Scandinavian-4.5%
Nonspecific Northern European-23.7%
Eastern European-27.9%
Italian-0.7%
Balkan-0.2%
Nonspecific European-6.8%
Nonspecific Southern European-2.9%
Non specific European-5.4%
East Asian and Native American0.2%
Middle Eastern and North African-0.1%

[Alanson]

Here is very interesting result of my ancestry composition but one thing is bothering me. Well I am mixture of Caucasian and Arabian. It seems that the Caucasian-Anatolian component went to the ME and North Africa. The North African score here is also interesting because it's 8%. Well my 4% European has been almost the same in all of the result and most often it turns out to be of NorthEastern Euro in the other tests. Though what is really bothering me is the missing 19.4% that seems to be unassigned. I am guessing it's Central Asian most likely


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[Jean M]

It looks like the new tool can identify British and Irish easily enough. My result is similar to Clinton's - just a fraction higher B & I (99.9% on speculative, 99.8% standard.)

[AJL]

It looks like the new tool can identify British and Irish easily enough.

Yes and no.

My mother is mainly Isles ancestry by a fair margin, and ends up with 43.9% British + Irish, 3.0% French + German (which is slightly low but close), and a whopping 50-odd percent Nonspecific Northern European/Nonspecific European, in addition to 0.1% South Asian (some remote Romani ancestry is plausible but not documented). Her sister -- my aunt -- has 31.7% British + Irish, 0.1% Scandinavian (again plausible considering coastal English/Irish/Scottish ancestry), 0.5% Iberian (probably feeding into known French ancestry), and the rest Nonspecific Northern European/Nonspecific European.

Almost all that "nonspecified," by paper trail, is English, Scottish, Irish, or Welsh, with a small amount of Dutch.

My mother's contributions to my DNA show up as 25.4% British + Irish, 4.9% French + German (more accurate than my mother's assesment), and the rest Nonspecific Northern European. My paternal contributions end up primarily Ashkenazi with some Eastern European and fairly large Nonspecific European and Unassigned blocks, much of which probably represents Sephardic ancestry.

So I think it is safe to say that while a very high proportion of British + Irish is excellent evidence of such ancestry, a somewhat lower proportion of 30-50% with a large amount of Nonspecific Northern European does not preclude majority or perhaps even full Isles ancestry.

[basque]

Standard:
99.6% British/Irish
0.2% Finnish
0.2% Nonspecific Northern European.

Speculative:
99.7% British/Irish
0.2% Finnish
0.1% Nonspecific Northern European.

Conservative:
96.7% British/Irish
3.0% Nonspecific Northern European
0.3% Nonspecific European.

basque (euro mutt)