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To: Helicondelta

This is the explanation on it. But she is NOT Native American::

In Summary

Neither Family Tree DNA nor 23andMe find Native ancestry in our German/Hungarian tester, but all 3 of the admixture tools at Gedmatch find either small amounts of Native or Asian ancestry that could certainly be interpreted as Native, such as Siberian or Beringian.

Does this mean this German/Hungarian man has Native American ancestry? Of course not, but it does probably mean that the Native population and his ancestral populations did share some genes from the same gene pool thousands of years ago.

While you might think this is improbable, or impossible, consider for a minute that every person outside of Africa today carries some percentage of Neanderthal DNA, and all Europeans also carry Denisovan DNA. Our DNA does indeed have staying power over the millennia, especially once an entire population or group of people is involved. We’ve recently seen this same type of scenarios in the full genome sequencing of a 24,000 year old Siberian male skeleton.

Our German/Hungarian man carries 2.4% Neanderthal DNA according to 23andMe and 2.7% according to the Genographic Project, which also reports that he carries 3.9% Denisovan. The European average is about 2% for Neanderthal.

The net-net of this is that minority admixture is not always what it seems to be, especially when utilizing autosomal DNA to detect small amounts of Native American admixture. The big picture needs to be taken into consideration. Caution is advised.

When searching for Native admixture, when possible, both Y DNA and mitochondrial DNA give specific answers for specific pedigree lines relative to ancestry. Of course, to utilize Y or mtDNA, the tester must descend from the Native ancestor either directly paternally to test the male Y chromosome, or directly matrilineally to test the mitochondrial line. You can read about this type of testing, and how it works, in my article, Proving Native American Ancestry Using DNA. You can also read about other ways to prove Native ancestry using autosomal DNA, including how to unravel which pedigree line the Native ancestry descends from, utilizing admixture tools, in the article, “The Autosomal Me.”

https://dna-explained.com/2014/05/21/finding-native-american-ethnic-results-in-germanic-people/


93 posted on 10/15/2018 8:03:17 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: realcleanguy
I'm oh Hungarian and German heritage; more Hungarian than the German.

Hungary was invaded and conquered by many different peoples, over at least 2 millennia; not the least of whom was Attila and his horde. Go back far enough and the ancestors of Alaskan Eskimos/Inuit are also those of many of Attilla's horde and the man himself.

The people at 23AndMe have admitted that when they knew that the spit sample was from a white person, they threw in a teensy bit of African black genes/DNA, to freak them out.

Since the person who did the test for Fauxhauntas, I don't trust the results at all. She probably has NO "Asian" DNA at all.

105 posted on 10/15/2018 8:15:18 PM PDT by nopardons
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