Outbreeding Works in a Single Generation

As I have mentioned before, cousin marriages were fairly common among my family. My parents are first cousins. So are my father’s parents. My mother’s parents are second cousins once removed. So instead of 32 great-great-great grandparents, I have only about 18. Since my wife and I are not related, I wondered how my inbred… Continue reading Outbreeding Works in a Single Generation

Family DNA Results

I posted my genetic ancestry results. Now, we’ve got my parents, my sister and my wife tested with 23andme. So I thought a comparison would be interesting. Here’s the ancestry painting from 23andme which uses three reference populations: Yoruba from Nigeria, Chinese and Japanese, and Utahns of Northwestern European descent. Dad Mom Sister Me Wife… Continue reading Family DNA Results

Dodecad Oracle

Dodecad has come up with a new version (v3) of its admixture results. Here are my results: South Asian 37.4% West Asian 23.3% Mediterranean 9.8% West European 9.6% Southwest Asian 6.2% East European 3.5% Southeast Asian 2.4% East African 2.2% Northeast Asian 1.9% Northwest African 1.5% Neo African 1.1% Palaeo African 1.0% Dodecad also has… Continue reading Dodecad Oracle

Punjabi and What?

Looking at the admixture analysis for my Harappa Ancestry Project, I count 6 Punjabis (not including my sister and I). Let’s average those six and compare them to me and my sister. Ancestral Pop Average Punjabi Me My sister NSA1 NSA2 South Asian 46% 38% 35% 7% 7% Balochistan/Caucasus 35% 35% 34% 32% 30% Kalash… Continue reading Punjabi and What?

Harappa Clustering

As I had computed the admixture percentages for myself, my sister and other participants in my Harappa Ancestry Project, I decided to do some clustering analysis on them to see which persons clustered together. The resulting tree for a hierarchical clustering is as follows. It shows which persons are the most similar. I am HRP0001… Continue reading Harappa Clustering

My Harappa Project Results

I have been blogging up a storm on Harappa Ancestry Project with more than 50 posts since I last linked to it. Let’s see what I have found out about myself there. Here are the admixture results for me and my sister: Me My sister South Asian 37.9% 34.8% Balochistan/Caucasus 34.7% 34.2% Southwest Asian 9.8%… Continue reading My Harappa Project Results

Eurogenes

Davidski of Eurogenes is also a genome blogger. In his admixture analysis for West, South and Central Asians, I am PKEG1 and my results are as follows: European 4% Siberian 1% Caucasus 32% Sub-Saharan African 4% Middle Eastern 9% East Asian 1% South Asian 50% Here’s a chart showing some of the reference samples and… Continue reading Eurogenes

Dodecad Project II

I talked about the Dodecad Project last time. Dienekes also did some cluster analysis using mclust. When he classified everybody into 48 clusters, I showed up almost all alone in cluster 21. Only one other member who is a Bihari Brahmin had a 50% chance of belonging in my cluster. With 56 clusters, I am… Continue reading Dodecad Project II

Dodecad Ancestry Project

I asked Dienekes to include me in his Dodecad Ancestry Project and he gave me the following results: Ancestral Component Percentage South Asian 44.9% West Asian 33.7% Southwest Asian 5.7% North European 5.5% South European 3.7% East African 3.4% Northwest African 2.1% West African 0.6% East Asian 0.4% Northeast Asian 0.1% You can see the… Continue reading Dodecad Ancestry Project

McDonald Ancestry Analysis II

When my sister got her 23andme results, we sent them over to Doug McDonald. I was expecting something close to my results, but it was radically different: This one is different it says 37% Druze, 4% Bushman or Pygmy, the rest North India. It is complicated enough that the program refuses to generate a spot… Continue reading McDonald Ancestry Analysis II