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With so many people just now getting their DNA results back, I thought it would be helpful to make this newsletter about the most popular aspect of DNA results: ethnicity estimates.
The following posts will help you get more information from your ethnicity estimate:
If you scroll down, you can read more about these posts. Just click on the title or the image to go to my site to read the complete article. Plus, you can always check back during the week for new posts.
Did you get 1% of an unexpected region in your DNA results? Maybe your ethnicity estimate shows 1% Irish, 1% European Jewish, 1% Bantu, or 1% North African DNA. You might be tempted to brush off these “trace” amounts of DNA from a particular region as statistical noise, but should you?
Ethnicity estimates are the most popular feature of DNA tests, yet also the most controversial. Its popularity has inspired people who don’t really know very much about the topic to chime in with their own opinion about the estimates, which are sometimes also known as ancestry composition reports or myOrigins estimates. Don’t worry, though, because you have come to the right place. In this post, I’ll dispel a few of the top myths about ethnicity estimates.
Once you’ve checked over your ethnicity estimate, you might find yourself comparing your results to those of your parents. Is it possible to use your ethnicity estimate to determine whether or not your parents are your parents? Can you use your ethnicity estimate to prove paternity? In this post, I’ll explain why your ethnicity estimate doesn’t tell you much about who your parents are, and which information from your DNA results is most useful for this purpose.
If you got your DNA results back a while ago, you have probably already checked over your ethnicity estimate. You may have even looked through your first page or so of DNA matches, and everything seems in order. Everyone says that there is so much to learn from your DNA, but how do you really know what your DNA results are trying to tell you? In this post, I’ll explain some strategies for analyzing your DNA results, with a focus on your ethnicity estimate.
If you did your DNA test with 23 and Me, you have access to a really amazing bit of information pertaining to your ethnicity estimate, also known as your Ancestry Composition report. Everyone else who does genetic genealogy is, or at least should be, very jealous of you! You have the ability to download your ethnicity data in order to see exactly which DNA segments correspond to specific ethnicities.
