Got my results from 23andMe and I am Neanderthal

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Recognized a fellow coli member on the site yesterday (of course I'd never acknowledge this to them, for our mutual privacy). :lolbron: Let's see if any of yall pop up in my relative finder. :merchant:
 

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Man this shyt amazing. I have found about 3 2nd cousins, 7 3rd cousins and 49 4th cousins. I been talking to one of my 3rd cousins on facebook all day. No incest

:leon: Have you been able to determine which side? Any interesting Countries of Ancestry (Ancestry Finder) matches?
 

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I'mma cop this for someone as a gift fromAfrican Ancestry - Home: Trace Your DNA. Find Your Roots. Today.
The site is black owned, so if ya wanna trace your roots, go ahead and buy from her.
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That's the founder of africanancestry.com
 

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the sample size for black people is too small to make any strong conclusions about african ancestry. you can try all the services and end up with different conclusions.

these services are only worth the money if you are getting health information or have relatives also in the pool of dna contributors that you have never met.
 

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the sample size for black people is too small to make any strong conclusions about african ancestry. .
explain. So you can't believe it if he tells you a couple locations and break down of ethnicity?
 

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explain. So you can't believe it if he tells you a couple locations and break down of ethnicity?
this is a bit out of my depth, but i will give it a shot, LOL

much like a woman on maury povich, we only know who the father is if the mother is honest and not too slutty. barring that, we have to bring every dude she spent more than 5 minutes alone with into the studio for testing. our ancestry is like that x100.

we need more people from the "old world" to be in the databse so we can compare every change in our y chromosome to other men's dna. africa is not heavily tested, so the database is very weak (all ethnicities have weak samples, but africa is even less sampled)

africans are older than everybody else, which means we have more history of more men adding changes to their y chromosome, so we need even more samples than other groups to apporach the same level of specificity.

the ancestry reports that call out specific african groups are overblown and will get revised over time as the sample situation gets better. everbody's dna analysis will be improving over time, so it is just a matter of fact that the ancestry results are nothing to get excited about right now.
 

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this is a bit out of my depth, but i will give it a shot, LOL

much like a woman on maury povich, we only know who the father is if the mother is honest and not too slutty. barring that, we have to bring every dude she spent more than 5 minutes alone with into the studio for testing. our ancestry is like that x100.

we need more people from the "old world" to be in the databse so we can compare every change in our y chromosome to other men's dna. africa is not heavily tested, so the database is very weak (all ethnicities have weak samples, but africa is even less sampled)

africans are older than everybody else, which means we have more history of more men adding changes to their y chromosome, so we need even more samples than other groups to apporach the same level of specificity.

the ancestry reports that call out specific african groups are overblown and will get revised over time as the sample situation gets better. everbody's dna analysis will be improving over time, so it is just a matter of fact that the ancestry results are nothing to get excited about right now.


none of that is a reason not to do it, people should still get it and wait over time as results get better

23and me just recently started breaking down europe into countries, they didnt do that 2 years ago when i did it, africa is just behind but eventually it should come around

but overall the more black people do it whether african or african american you are adding to the database which is a good thing
 
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