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[NormanGalway]

The "Portuguese" Enigma

Portugal is kind of a weird result in these autosomal tests - for those who have no known Portuguese ancestry. 600 years ago wouldn't count because statistically, it's virtually certain that you would have no alleles from that person.
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[NormanGalway]

blackdutch,
that's cool.
how does her Tribes profile stand up to Omnipop, or
have you done that yet? I'm curious how much they
differ, if they do...
Everyone I've tested has gotten radically different results on
each.

[NormanGalway]

so Noaide, does this mean you recommend the ABDNA approach?
I've never done the Euro test they offer...

[NormanGalway]

Eki,
Did you do ENSFI with all the relevant markers (including D2 and D19), or minus those two?

[NormanGalway]

Tom,

I noticed on the Kerchner Tribes blog that an askenazi fellow got top match to Greek cypriot. In fact, his results look a bit like yours if I am remembering them correctly.

[NormanGalway]

That's interesting. If true, then perhaps some NA folks will also get matches
in Hungary/ and or Finland/Estonia for the same reason (cf Lumbee).

[NormanGalway]

Jaranta,

The Vikings also quite famously took Irish women to Iceland.
I think various population studies there have shown that quite a few female
lines there point to Ireland.

[NormanGalway]

Kelly,
The "Indian" could be related to spanish, because of the roma (gypsy) component in a lot of Iberian ancestry.
Your profile looks pretty European to me -- southern European.
Italian is pretty persistent in there.
In your diaspora populations, you don't get...

[NormanGalway]

maybe alphabetical in bizarro world!
but the table is fixed, so the same countries are
always in the same order...
ie, your fear was right.

[NormanGalway]

yes, it's alphabetical.
But if you look at the numbers, maybe it's still tops for you...

[NormanGalway]

one other thing, John:
I have also found a fairly wide and persistent disparity between Tribes and Omnipop. I have found this disparity with every member of my family that I have tested.
so I'm not sure which is more reliable...
but neither one seems to be more accurate than the...

[NormanGalway]

John,

This list means you match no one.
I had the same problem when I ran "penta,"
because apparently the data for those markers is largely
missing from many of the population studies.
if you take out penta, you will get some results...
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[NormanGalway]

hmm... that sounds interesting!

[NormanGalway]

you're right - also, the new global map of population affinities shows that Finns have very little Eastern European - even less than Germans.

[NormanGalway]

Noaide,
After reading Kathleen's post, I checked out the Lumbee on Wikipedia, which was interesting. May answer your question...
Also, look how "high" the German sample's Finno ugric world match score is...