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I guess you´re American, mate...

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Hi Armando,

I'm aware of the fact that you, ever since, have been complaining about the accuracy of myOrigins with regard to Native American Ancestry estimates. When I first read your posts (long time ago) I decided to email FTDNA and ask them about this issue, since my own percentage...

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This is a disappointing though predictable outcome. Judging from his activity as a blogger, Mr Khan seems to have time for everything...else.

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Be optimistic! There are still ten days to go. ...

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Agreed! Dr McDonalds's explanation doesn't make much sense to me either....

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The following has been extracted from the myOrigins paper by Razib Khan and Rui Hu:

We assembled a large number of candidate reference populations which were relatively unadmixed and sampled widely in terms of geography. From these we removed related or outlier individuals with the Plink...

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As far as I'm concerned, my MO results are consistent (with the exception of the NA component estimate) with those of Gedmatch ancestry calculators, namely Dodecad's World9 and Eurogenes' K13. The Italian (or Sardinian) component is always present; conversely, the Middle Eastern component almost never...

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Quite so, Rafael. The 14.38% Middle Eastern ancestry estimate from Population Finder was in fact my only Italian g-grandfather contribution to my genome; he was Northern Italian, from Genoa. On the contrary, it seems PF correctly identified what it called my Spanish-Basque-French ancestry, which added...

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What was I thinking? I've got it completely wrong, the actual number of SNPs used by myOrigins appears to be 290,874. Right?...

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Have I understood correctly?

Have I understood correctly that myOrigins uses 377 AIMs (ancestry informative markers) to determine one's ancestry?

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Josh and Rafael, having read your comments, I think I should clarify my previous ones. To me the real issue is not whether I have or have not any Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry; this is totally irrelevant to me, as the many Ashkenazi "cousins" I've found both on Family Finder and Gedmatch came...

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Hi,
My PF results showed 14.38% Middle Eastern, with different populations listed: Jewish, Palestinian, Druze, etc. But the fact is still there, is it not? PF gave me 14.38% Middle Eastern, myOrigins reduces this percentage to 1%. Confusing indeed....

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I don't intend to complain over my ancestry results according to the new myOrigins. Still, there are a couple of issues that make me feel frustrated and confused. My Population Finder results showed 14.38% Middle Eastern, which seemed to be quite logical since 27.7% of my Family Finder "cousins"...

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I don't intend to complain over my ancestry results according to the new myOrigins. Still, there are a couple of issues that make me feel frustrated and confused. My Population Finder results showed 14.38% Middle Eastern, which seemed to be quite logical since 27.7% of my Family Finder "cousins"...

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Interestingly, Spencer Wells and Michael Hammer are among the authors of the scientific paper upon which the Prosapia tool seems to be based (geographic population structure analysis). I give them the benefit of the doubt....