It's weird to me that you guys are arguing over admixture that may not even be real. @Arma. Seriously email me your raw data:
sheikhsaazana@gmail.com
And lemme have a look.
Here, saxiib.
It's weird to me that you guys are arguing over admixture that may not even be real. @Arma. Seriously email me your raw data:
sheikhsaazana@gmail.com
And lemme have a look.
Look it sort of like this:
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Your Y-DNA is from that one dude on the left and your mtDNA is from that one chica on the right among all those people. Although, in truth, auDNA is a little more complex. Dude to random recombination over the generations you may inherit far less from some of those ancestors than others, even miss out entirely on DNA segments from many of them. it's really a toss of the dice which segments of DNA you inherit from your parents in the 50% you get from them. You may in fact be 15% awoowo but 35% ayeeyo, for example. That can seriously happen. And who knows how much each ancestor of ayeeyo's in that 35% got left behind.
I see, I hadn't realized that about visa applications and crime scene stuff. But yeah, these companies all mainly do autosomal stuff as that is what's ancestry informative. Y-DNA is not useful for that. Just for your paternal lineage which can come from literally anywhere despite your real ancestral makeup. Same for mtDNA. Good rule of thumb is if you see a percentage then it's auDNA you're looking at. You can't be 55% Y-DNA J1. You either are J1 or you're not. There is no in-between. Same for mtDNA L3f1ab or N1a, for example. If you see 60% "Somali" or something then obviously they're looking autosomal DNA.Generally speaking, as I understood it before, most DNA tests is to determine paternal lineage or paternity, as in the case for Visa applications, crime scene evidence, inheritance etc, they solely check the Paternal Y lineage unless otherwise required, mtDNA is never at play. That was what was confusing. Autosomal vs Common DNA tests. There is this default thinking that DNA means the Y connection.
Plus mtDNA is not reliable.
I see, I hadn't realized that about visa applications and crime scene stuff. But yeah, these companies all mainly do autosomal stuff as that is what's ancestry informative. Y-DNA is not useful for that. Just for your paternal lineage which can come from literally anywhere despite your real ancestral makeup. Same for mtDNA. Good rule of thumb is if you see a percentage then it's auDNA you're looking at. You can't be 55% Y-DNA J1. You either are J1 or you're not. There is no in-between. Same for mtDNA L3f1ab or N1a, for example. If you see 60% "Somali" or something then obviously they're looking autosomal DNA.