Shazou's MyHeritage DNA results

[Iloko]

The 4.5% Euro % is noticeably higher than what I score on 23andme(1.9%). Melanesian does show up which seems to suggest its algorithm is designed to detect ancient admixtures. Though my South Asian isn't detected at all. Philippine-Austronesian component fell under their "Chinese" category due to a lack of Asian reference populations and genetic similarity, though I've read that they are increasing their reference panel to up to 200 reference populations in the upcoming few months or less. I wonder what type of Euro my 4.5% might actually be, is it just Spanish being misread as French and Sardinian I wonder? Any help from anyone more knowledgeable on the Euro part is much appreciated.

[Taiguaitiaoghyrmmumin]

Congrats your're asian 1/4 being south east asian.

[knowledge is king]

Congrats with your results!

[Petalpusher]

The 4.5% Euro % is noticeably higher than what I score on 23andme(1.9%). Melanesian does show up which seems to suggest its algorithm is designed to detect ancient admixtures. Though my South Asian isn't detected at all. Philippine-Austronesian component fell under their "Chinese" category due to a lack of Asian reference populations and genetic similarity, though I'v read that they are increasing their reference panel to up to 200 reference populations in the upcoming few months or less. I wonder what type of Euro my 4.5% might actually be, is it just Spanish being misread as French and Sardinian I wonder? Any help from anyone more knowledgeable on the Euro part is much appreciated.

That's likely what the admixture is seeing. French + Sardinian average as Spanish average, even 50/50 in K15. It could mean your Iberian ancestry is rather from northern Spain as the Sardinian is lower, but it's maybe reading too much into it. The fact it already detects something European is pretty good.

[knowledge is king]

Viewing it more closely, I can state 23andMe was essentially more accurate at admixture analysis.

This calculator says, you are Chinese basically.

I presume the main market for My heritage DNA is Europe and US, for this reason they don't have many asian profiles.

[Iloko]

Viewing it more closely, I can state 23andMe was essentially more accurate at admixture analysis.

This calculator says, you are Chinese basically.

I presume the main market for My heritage DNA is Europe and US, for this reason they don't have many asian profiles.

I think it's due to a lack of Asian reference populations. On 23andme their filipino samples are grouped under the SE-Asian category so we come out mostly SE-Asian on there. On MH they only have one SE-Asian category which is 'Thai & Cambodian', so my Austronesian component when into the next genetically closest category which is "Chinese", whatever their Chinese samples are comprised of. They may have Dai samples under their Chinese category I might imagine. And according to this PCA the Igorots of Northern Philippines who are the purest Austronesians are genetically very close to the Chinese Dai but are a less-evolved type:



As you can see in this PCA Igorots are the purest filipinos, but then filipinos have some South Asian and Papuan/Australoid admixtures which pull them towards Eastern Indonesia.

...MH currently only has 36 reference populations but they are increasing that to 100-200 soon I've read, which is much more advanced than the current 23andme!

[Iloko]

That's likely what the admixture is seeing. French + Sardinian average as Spanish average, even 50/50 in K15. It could mean your Iberian ancestry is rather from northern Spain as the Sardinian is lower, but it's maybe reading too much into it. The fact it already detects something European is pretty good.

Do you have any sample K15 that looks like that, I would love to see the Oracle for that person.

Basque country is in Northern Spain btw right? Could 'Basque' be a possibility I wonder?

I've read that apart from Andalusians there were also a lot of Basque settlers in the Philippines. I read the majority of the Spanish in the Philippines were Andalusians though, though I'm not too sure how trustworthy that source online was.

..4.5% is about what I got on puntDNAL K15 which precisely was 4.44% I believe.

[Dr. Robotnik the Subbotnik]

It's strange, I transferred my dna to this company but I never get this kind of thing, even after done processing :/

[Taiguaitiaoghyrmmumin]

It's strange, I transferred my dna to this company but I never get this kind of thing, even after done processing :/

You dont get ethnicity report from transfers. Only relative dna matches. He did a kit. It says it on their website.

[Dr. Robotnik the Subbotnik]

You dont get ethnicity report from transfers. Only relative dna matches. He did a kit. It says it on their website.

Ah. Thank you for clearing that up.