Question to Americans regarding Hispanic 23andme results

[Argentano]

Americans, what do you think about the ancestry of the hispanics living in USA?Do you think they are pred euro or pred non white?

I have heard a lot of people saying that latinos living in USA are pred amerindian and i tought it was understandable since many latinos living in USA are low class. But 23andme has published a huge study with ancestry genetic results of 8.663 Hispanics (biggest sample i have ever seen) living in USA and the results does not agree with this. In fact the result is a predominantely european population with very few people scoring predominantely amerindian.

http://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(14)00476-5

We studied the genetic ancestry of 5,269 self-described African Americans, 8,663 Latinos, and 148,789 European Americans who are 23andMe customers and show that the legacy of these historical interactions is visible in the genetic ancestry of present-day Americans.

On average, we estimate that Latinos in the US carry 18.0% Native American ancestry, 65.1% European ancestry, and 6.2% African ancestry. We find the highest levels of estimated Native American ancestry in self-reported Latinos from states in the Southwest, especially those bordering Mexico (Figure 2C). We find the highest mean levels of African ancestry in Latinos living in or born in states in the South, especially Louisiana, the Midwest, and Atlantic (Figure 2A). Further stratification of individuals by their self-reported population affiliation (e.g., “Mexican,” “Puerto Rican,” or “Dominican”) reveals a diversity in genetic ancestry, consistent with previous work studying these populations

What do you Americans think about this results? I trust 23andme much more than those small studies with 20 samples and 10 AIMs

Results

[Carlito's Way]

the only ones who usually say Latinos in America are pred Amerindian are those living in areas filled with farm workers and Latin Americans who don't know shit

[Argentano]

the only ones who usually say Latinos in America are pred Amerindian are those living in areas filled with farm workers and Latin Americans who don't know shit

What do you think about this results? are they in accordance with what you see in USA? The truth is that this is the biggest study i have ever seen and with 23andme markers that seem to be reliable.

[Argentano]

Dont know why donald Trump thumbed me down for posting a genetic study

[Greensboro Jock]

The ones who take DNA tests are higher class than the farm workers

[Argentano]

The ones who take DNA tests are higher class than the farm workers

Well yes thats true. That being said 23andme was USD 100 when i did the test and i think anybody who is really interested can afford it.

[Carlito's Way]

What do you think about this results? are they in accordance with what you see in USA? The truth is that this is the biggest study i have ever seen and with 23andme markers that seem to be reliable.

yeah its accurate, majority of the Latino population in America are pred European in all regions of the country, there are of course exceptions because like I have mentioned, most farm workers are pred Amerindian and many still speak their dialects, but most of them live in small towns along with other farm workers

this is also applies to Caribbean Latinos, they are also pred European, whether people here want to make them look like they are African American or Haitian looking, that is not true, most are in the balance mulatto-quadroon range (Dominicans and Puerto Ricans), with of course the Cuban population who are majority white

[Carlito's Way]

The ones who take DNA tests are higher class than the farm workers

nigga this is America not Latin America, if hood kids can afford Jordan shoes and iPhones, then they can afford 23andMe

[Argentano]

This Chart was specially interesting to me. Only around 5% of the hispanic(or less) scored predominantely amerindian

[Argentano]

nigga this is America not Latin America, if hood kids can afford Jordan shoes and iPhones, then they can afford 23andMe

The friend of mine who brought me the kit is illegally in USA and according to him he is earning 2.000 USD as a construction worker. I doubt USD 100 is a life changer