Hi all,
I just got my FTDNA results this evening. It's rather complicated, so I'm going to have to read up a bit on interpreting the info. It doesn't look like the Family Finder basic gives you your haplogroup, unless I'm missing it.
I took the Ancestry.com test a year or so ago. My results there, separated according to my guess:
Father:
British Isles-34%
Scandinavian 11% (I'm assuming it was Viking, leaving some DNA in England and Ireland.)
Mother (full-blooded Mexican):
East Asian;17% (Native American, I think)
South Asian 10% (Roma, I think, from Spain)
Native North American: 8%
Native South American: 6%
Southern European: 7% (Spanish)
Total:
European: 52%
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FTDNA results:
Western European: 52.94%
Native American: 10.91%
East Asian: 21.49%
South Asian: 14.66%
The percentages appear to be very close to each other.
Beyond this, I'm still not sure how to read the rest of my results. I'll do that later at a more decent hour!
Thanks,
Laura Gonzalez
Hi Armando,
Thanks again for the input and calculations.
I actually bought a Geno2.0 kit in order to get my own ethnic percentile estimate. I chose them since it seems to me they have a pretty strong database to make their calculations, not just from tests people bought, but also from their own field research. I will mail it in a few weeks when I "make a run for the border", I look forward to getting those results.
However, for my parents samples I decided to try the Family Finder tests since they also offer the "DNA cousin comparison" and I would like to see if finding distant cousins from other lines than the direct paternal and maternal ones helps me to break some brick-walls in my genealogical research (such as discovering if my Navarro family does come from Jalisco as one undocumented source claims).
Have a nice weekend!
Victoriano Navarro
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Hi Armando,
I ran some FTDNA results through the program you suggested. Could you please provide a comparison to Spanish and other European populations sources? Family Finder only gives us Europe (Finnish, Russian), Middle East (North Africa, Mozabite), South Asia (North Indian and Southeast Indian) and Native American ("Central American", Maya). The program you suggested gives quite different results, even using its different calculators.
Chromosome #SNPs
All 166255
Siberian 1.47
Amerindian 42.10
West_African 4.46
Palaeo_African 0.44
Southwest_Asian 5.13
East_Asian 1.25
Mediterranean 20.04
Australasian 0.03
Arctic 1.71
West_Asian 6.40
North_European 14.36
South_Asian 0.98
East_African 1.62
Most of the FTDNA matches we get include the old families from NE Mexico and Texas: González, de la Garza, Elizondo, Villarreal, Cantú, etc. I understand that at least the Elizondo family got to NE Mexico through Mazapil, Zacatecas. We also have a Hernández line that
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Hello Victoriano,
FTDNA provides a region name then it provides in parenthesis the demonym of ethnic groups that have a larger percent of those autosomal markers. However, the autosomal markers showed up thousands of years before those ethnic groups came into being. Also, those ethnic groups have a mix of markers. For example Russians are a mix of Siberian, Southwest_Asian, Mediterranean, Arctic, West_Asian, North_European, and South_Asian. Likewise Spanish are a mix of many of those and they have 36.8% North_European. That does not mean Spaniards descend from Russians. It means the people that gave Russians 68.5% of their autosomal DNA also gave Spaniards 36.8% percent of their autosomal DNA. We have no idea who those people were that first had the North_European markers nor do we know for sure when they populated the rest of Europe.
The Middle East is also a mix of ancestral components, or ancient autosomal DNA. The whole world except a few rare groups have a mix of ancestral
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Hi Armando,
Thanks for the info. According to FTDNA our sample's percentiles are 26.4% Europe (Finnish, Russian), 22.9% Middle East (North Africa, Mozabite), 6.7% South Asia (North Indian and Southeast Indian) and y 44% Native American (México and Centroamérica).
By comparing it to the NatGeo Geno2.0 reference populations and based on our genealogical research, I estimated these numbers added up to 56% Iberian and 44% Amerindian, similar to your estimate based on Globe13 results, but not quite the same.
FTDNA does mention Population Finder is a beta project and thus the percentiles given may vary over time, so I guess this is far from being an exact science.
Regards,
Victoriano Navarro
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FTDNA terminology and methodology is outdated. It should be used only as a reference to what was used in the past. It has been in Beta for years.
The Geno 2.0 testing is done by FTDNA but the terminology and presentation are different and Geno 2.0 actually provides source population info on the admixture of many countries, regions, and ethnic groups from around the world. This is because Geno 2.0 is newer and updated. It is far better in those regards.
The reason you estimated differently than me is because you didn't divide your sample's North European and Mediterranean percentages by the percentage found in either the Geno 2.0 or the Globe13 North European and Mediterranean percentages for the Spanish or Iberian population. If you do that it comes out to around 40% +-2%. If you multiply the 40% times the other components that exist in the Spanish population you still end up with about 40%. If you subtract the Spanish amounts of Asian DNA and add the remaining Asian DNA to the
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Hello Laura,
Family Finder does not provide haplogroup info. You need to get an mtDNA
test for the maternal line and a male has to get the Y-DNA test for the
paternal line.
For your ancestry percentage the best calculator is the Globe13 at
http://www.y-str.org/tools/diy-dodecad-wrapper/
You have to download your raw file from Family Finder first then drag it
into the DIYdodecadwrapper and choosing globe13 out of the list of
calculators.
You can save the results as a text file. Post them here I can provide a
comparison to Spanish and other European populations sources.
The Globe13 calculator uses terminology that closely matches the National
Geographic Geno 2.0 test.
https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/overview-of-regions-and-clos…
https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/overview-of-regions-and-clos…
The other two items that Family Finder provides are matches with a
calculated relationship and a chromosome
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