My DNA Tribes Scores

[mothdust9]

Hi,

I just got my DNA results (21 marker) from DNA Tribes and I thought I would share them here. I'm in the mtDNA haplogroup W, by the way. These are my High resolution native results and the global are pretty much the same.

Kuwait (0.94) 44,019.23, Iran (0.99) 31,293.69, Upper Southern Egypt (0.92) 21,010.28, Xeutes Majorca Spain (0.92) 19,223.04, Ashkenazi Hungary (0.86) 18,100.33, Guinea-Bissau (0.49) 15,856.23, Northern Portugal (0.91)13,226.18, Sudan (0.84) 11,227.56, Portugal (0.86)10,535.06, Dubai (United Arab Emirates) (0.96) 9,380.80, Galicia, Spain (0.88) 8,480.20, Portugal (0.85)8,116.31, Italy (0.91)7,356.71, Maghrebi (0.9)6,444.13, United Arab Emirates (0.93) 5,932.71, Italy (0.88)5,681.32, El-Minia, Egypt (0.88)5,491.79, Northern Portugal (0.81)5,264.70, Turkey (0.93)4,677.01, Portugal (0.81)3,466.47.

My top world region match was the Levantine (0.84), my second was Mesopotamian (0.81).

Any comments would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Tiffany

[tomcat]

I hope your results conform to your known ancestries. Nice big numbers!

[mothdust9]

I hope your results conform to your known ancestries. Nice big numbers!

Well, I don't really have any known ancestries since I'm adopted. So, I'm trying to figure out my heritage with the DNA testing. So, the big numbers are good? I guess so since everything is pointing to the same place. Thank you tomcat!

Tiffany

[juan carlos]

Well, I don't really have any known ancestries since I'm adopted. So, I'm trying to figure out my heritage with the DNA testing. So, the big numbers are good? I guess so since everything is pointing to the same place. Thank you tomcat!

Tiffany

Very interesting. I infer you are female, so you cannot test your father's line since you don't know who your biological relatives are. But, according to these results, your dad could have been of Near Eastern ancestry, even if born in the USA. Or perhaps your mother had ancestors from that part of the world too.

[tomcat]

Very interesting. I infer you are female, so you cannot test your father's line since you don't know who your biological relatives are. But, according to these results, your dad could have been of Near Eastern ancestry, even if born in the USA. Or perhaps your mother had ancestors from that part of the world too.

At the risk of misleading Tiffany and making an ass of myself, I am going to disagree with the hypothesis that both parents were Near Eastern. If both were Near Eastern I think the geographic range of matches would be much tighter and the scores bigger. As it is, although most matches fall within a band of latitude, they oscillate, in order, east to west. My guess would be that one parent was of a western ancestry and one of a more easterly extraction. Bearing in mind that all western matches are qualified by the presence of eastern genetics and vice versa.

[tomcat]

Well, I don't really have any known ancestries since I'm adopted. So, I'm trying to figure out my heritage with the DNA testing. So, the big numbers are good? I guess so since everything is pointing to the same place. Thank you tomcat! Tiffany

Tiffany,
My mother was adopted so I have some sympathy for your predicament. If you have exhausted all bureaucratic means of accessing your birth records, whole or in part, and your only recourse is DNA, I have two suggestions:
1) Order the DNATribes Extended Report. This is a supplement to the standard analysis that matches you to all populations in the Tribes database. It only costs about $25. Although we all expect high-scoring definitive matches from Tribes, in fact lesser matches may be instructive on ancestry if they tend to cluster in specific geographies. Even non-matches, less than 1.00, rule-out ancestries and focus possibilities.
2) Save that $25 and more until you have amassed the $399 needed for the 23andMe genome scan (www.23andme.com) that samples 600,000 SNP's across your 22 autosomal chromosomes, semi-autosomal X chromosome and mitochondrion. Check it out.

[mothdust9]

Hi Tomcat,

Thank you for your help I do have my extended match results and all my highest numbers are in the Middle East and South America. My lowest numbers are European countries (except Spain and Italy), and my non-matches are all East Asian, Central Asian, and African (except upper Egypt).

Thanks,
Tiffany

[tomcat]

So, with no East or Central Asian matches (that could indicate Native American ancestry) your South American matches must be predicated on European ancestry (Tribes does find "Mestizo" among Europeans). Spain and Portugal are the main source ancestries but many other Europeans emigrated. How do your low-scoring European matches rank?

[mothdust9]

Ok, I just found #60 Greece (0.83), #66 Croatia (0.79), #80 Turkey (0.85), and further down after the first 100 and some matches are countries in the UK (Scotland, Wales, Ireland) and Eastern Europe(Slovenia, Poland, Hungary, Russia, Austria) at 0.6 and less. Turkey, Italy, Spain, and Portugal are listed multiple times with fairly high numbers.

Tiffany

[mothdust9]

Also, Mestizo is listed at rank #3 Cesar and Guajira, Colombia (0.93) 33,180.42.

Tiffany

[tomcat]

Ok, I just found #60 Greece (0.83), #66 Croatia (0.79), #80 Turkey (0.85), and further down after the first 100 and some matches are countries in the UK (Scotland, Wales, Ireland) and Eastern Europe(Slovenia, Poland, Hungary, Russia, Austria) at 0.6 and less. Turkey, Italy, Spain, and Portugal are listed multiple times with fairly high numbers.

Tiffany

It seems then, other than Spain and Portugal, your only European matches (greater than 1.0) are in Greece, the Balkans, the British Isles and Ireland. Question?

[mothdust9]

It seems then, other than Spain and Portugal, your only European matches (greater than 1.0) are in Greece, the Balkans, the British Isles and Ireland. Question?

Correct. I also think you are right about my maternal side being the mid-east influence and the South American from the paternal because of the Middle Eastern connections the W haplogroup seems to have. That's just my guess, but I'm still learning about all this stuff.

Thanks,
Tiffany

[tomcat]

Tiffany,

You might post your Mitosearch User ID. You can add it as a Signature via Private Messages function.

[mothdust9]

My mitosearch ID is 4U4N4.