Originally posted by Jim Honeychuck
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You should know that about 2% of Europeans show strong matches to Asia. Personally my results came back strongly as Nepalese, despite the fact that virtually all of my ancestors for the past 500 years lived within 100 miles of each other in north-western europe. DNATribes explained that my results likely reflect ancient connections between Asia and Europe. It is probably the same for you.
John
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How about the idea that genetic inheritance can skip generations?Then again my father and his sister both have epicanthal eye folds (asiatic features) and I got 100% European doesn't make sense. At the same time I was classified anthropologically with a slight Finnic (West-Sibirid) admixture..
Last edited by Downer101; 21 May 2007, 09:21 PM.
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Originally posted by JohnserratYou should know that about 2% of Europeans show strong matches to Asia. Personally my results came back strongly as Nepalese, despite the fact that virtually all of my ancestors for the past 500 years lived within 100 miles of each other in north-western europe. DNATribes explained that my results likely reflect ancient connections between Asia and Europe. It is probably the same for you.
Noaide
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Originally posted by NoaideYes, but this also means that the test would in certain cases would fail a blind test (some individuals would wrongly be considered asian). The "weird" thing is also that both of your parents and your offspring (if all of native European stock) would likely all fall into the European category while you did not. This is because the markers in question always "shuffle" trough each generations and maybe in 2 of 100 cases the individual get "asian looking" genes even the individual has no closer relationship with asians than other europeans. This is a property of these autosomal STR I do not like.
NoaideLast edited by tomcat; 22 May 2007, 04:28 PM.
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Originally posted by tomcatTribes, CSFS, ENFSI and Omnipop all employ profile-matching algorithms that compare one's entire allelic profile to the profiles of diverse populations. So, it may be less a matter of 'asian looking' genes than an Asian-looking profile - a particular combination of specific alleles that has greater frequency among an Asian population.
John
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