MyHeritage DNA thread

[Longbowman]

Originally it gave me this

http://i66.tinypic.com/243m1zn.jpg

but now it's somehow become even less accurate.

http://i67.tinypic.com/mhg800.jpg

How is it this out of kilter?

[Lek]

Biggest piece of shit dna test ever on par with ancestrydna.. But they are new to this so give em some slack

[Longbowman]

They have Sephardic (OK, North African whereas I'm European) and Iraqi Jewish references so I don't get how badly they got this wrong.

[Lek]

They have Sephardic (OK, North African whereas I'm European) and Iraqi Jewish references so I don't get how badly they got this wrong.

They gave me Balkan 43% and the rest Greek. I tried it twice, 2nd time my Greek increased and Balkan lowered by few percentage lol... I think they are essentially same thing.

Dna land i uploaded hundreds of times, always the same, 100% Balkan. :shrug:

Any autosomal test that has Greek as a component is obv bullshit.

[Taiguaitiaoghyrmmumin]

You did a test kit also or just uploaded raw data?

Its more accurate then mine though thats for sure

[Longbowman]

You did a test kit also or just uploaded raw data?

Its more accurate then mine though thats for sure

Test kit, in fact.

[kingjohn]

ok
looks bad but atleast they were right about your aschenazi ancestery %
which is probably 85-90%
in my case the aschenazi they gave me is the same % as ftdna my origins 2.0 gave me
by the way you do score
north atlantic and north sea in eurogenes k36 something like 5-6%
so i can understand from were scottish welsh cluster come in the second upload ....

[Sikeliot]

Half Campanian, half Sicilian from Agrigento:

http://i.imgur.com/GJiVsfv.png

[Sikeliot]

Messina, eastern Sicily:
Iberian: 23.1%
Greek: 20.0%
Sardinian:14.7%
Mizrahi Jewish - Iranian/Iraqi: 13.0%
West Asian: 9.5%
North Africa: 19.7%

[Lucas]

Longbowman do you consider My Heritage good enough? Or you just curious?

[Gangrel]

Damn, I sent mine in like a week ago. Yall are scaring me

[Longbowman]

Longbowman do you consider My Heritage good enough?

Not really, giving me 10% Welsh is beyond inaccurate, especially when it isn't even counterbalanced by anything.

[Voskos]

so it got 90% of your ancestry right in both cases.

your sephardic is mixed with european which makes it look fully ashkenazi.

[Dick]

Not really, giving me 10% Welsh is beyond inaccurate, especially when it isn't even counterbalanced by anything.

Your Sephardic side is mixed with Spanish, correct? It's probably those ancient "celtic" Snps that Iberians and Brits share like on 23andme but then again I see you have zero Iberian or maybe living in Wales and eating Welsh lamb has had an impact on you genetically xD

[Longbowman]

so it got 90% of your ancestry right in both cases.

your sephardic is mixed with european which makes it look fully ashkenazi.

Let's just say every drop of my Sephardic blood were confused for Ashkenazi - I'm still wildly out. 10% Welsh is not plausible.


Your Sephardic side is mixed with Spanish, correct? It's probably those ancient "celtic" Snps that Iberians and Brits share like on 23andme but then again I see you have zero Iberian or maybe living in Wales and eating Welsh lamb has had an impact on you genetically xD

I'm not 10% Spanish or even close to it. I doubt I'm even 1% Spanish. It's clear that all that sheep sex has rubbed off on me, like those studies about fruit flies and DNA transfer via sex suggest.

[Catkin]

Not really, giving me 10% Welsh is beyond inaccurate, especially when it isn't even counterbalanced by anything.

Were you in Wales when you signed up?

[Longbowman]

Were you in Wales when you signed up?

Probably yeah.

[Kamal900]

They have Sephardic (OK, North African whereas I'm European) and Iraqi Jewish references so I don't get how badly they got this wrong.

I'm 22% Sephardic and more than 30% Mizrahi Jewish. Pretty accurate if you ask me.

[Longbowman]

I'm 22% Sephardic and more than 30% Mizrahi Jewish. Pretty accurate if you ask me.

#jealous

[Kamal900]

#jealous

My family members are flattered to find out that we are of Jewish ancestry to a point that my big brother and mother keep listening to the traditional Jewish song(It's called Lava-something. I forgot the name).

[Sikeliot]

My family members are flattered to find out that we are of Jewish ancestry to a point that my big brother and mother keep listening to the traditional Jewish song(It's called Lava-something. I forgot the name).

West Bank Palestinians are mostly Hebrew/Jewish/Canaanite by genes, no?

[Longbowman]

My family members are flattered to find out that we are of Jewish ancestry to a point that my big brother and mother keep listening to the traditional Jewish song(It's called Lava-something. I forgot the name).

There's only one traditional Jewish song.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6Fr8anW0EA

[kingjohn]

for me they{my heritage} were not that bad
the gave me the same Ashkenazi %
they notice my Sephardi

they gave me eastern Europe + Baltic =9% probably from my Bulgarian grandmother close to the 11% my origins 2.0 gave ...
for me the results were logic
I think there greek cluster eating my asia minor of my origins 2.0
other than that I think it is good
but each case is on it's own ...

[FilhoV]

65523

[Sikeliot]

Northern coast of Sicily, in Messina province (Naso and Milazzo):

http://i.imgur.com/axnyTMo.jpg

[Catkin]

Probably yeah.

Just wondered, because I noticed most people I've seen who are in Scotland, Ireland, and now Wales, or in places where there is a high diaspora from these areas such as NZ and Australia, generally seem to get high Ireland/Scotland/Wales and low English.

I signed up in England and on this I score mostly English and some Scandinavian, with no Irish/Scottish/Welsh at all, though I have an Irish grandad and other Irish, Welsh and Scottish lines. However I noticed in the English description, it says:

"the dominant “original” British ethnic group is dominated by the English, of course, and includes the Celtic heirs, as some of Welsh, Scottish, and Irish descent respectively have settled in modern-day England."

Which kind of suggests the English category may allow for genes from the rest of British isles, and I wondered if they partly go on IP location in calculating your results. Because technically they are right, I am English with ancestors who settled from Ireland etc.

I saw some users weren't able to do the test because it recognised their IP was from countries where it wasn't allowed, so they obviously are looking at IP addresses.

Anyway, long story short, I wondered if they included Wales because you were there, so it was likely you might have some. I may be wrong, just a possibility from looking at my results.

Btw, I uploaded mine twice and got slightly different results each time too.

[Rethel]

Another proof that au testing is senseless...

btw, 93% aschkenazi - do you want yet
say something about your sephardness?? :laugh:

[Dibran]

They gave me Balkan 43% and the rest Greek. I tried it twice, 2nd time my Greek increased and Balkan lowered by few percentage lol... I think they are essentially same thing.

Dna land i uploaded hundreds of times, always the same, 100% Balkan. :shrug:

Any autosomal test that has Greek as a component is obv bullshit.

As I understand it( based on albanian results on other forums) a general 50/50 balkan and greek is common for malesor albanians, albanians from montenegro, and albanians from Kosova. Albanians from central southern albania and macedonia, get predominantly Greek.

For example:

Me -
Greek 76%
Balkan 16%
Italian 8%

Father:

Greek 98%
Italian 2%

My mother is from Malesia, from Puka, and she increased the Balkan percentage for me.

If you look at the regions encompassed by the reference, Greek tapers out at central albania, whereas balkan tapers off at northern Albania. They just label it greek and balkan so it can be confusing.

The Balkan component also has higher slavic admixture as Greek is supposed to represent classical era I guess.

Greeks dont even score 100 percent Greek. So I think its representative of some neolithic component, where balkan has more steppe admixture? Idk

My family is from Diber Vogel in Okshtun, very isolated. My mom increased the balkan on myheritage, whereas my father had none.

[Jana]

My results in English
http://i.imgur.com/22QNx2A.png

I like this test, it detected my Askhenazi admixture as well as Germanic one.

[Dibran]

My results in English
http://i.imgur.com/22QNx2A.png

I like this test, it detected my Askhenazi admixture as well as Germanic one.

I am surprised it did not classify your east euro into Balkan. Being Croatian. I have seen some Croatians on Anthro score as high as 76 percent Balkan.

[Jana]

I am surprised it did not classify your east euro into Balkan. Being Croatian. I have seen some Croatians on Anthro score as high as 76 percent Balkan.
I am not suprised, because on DNA land I get very high ''North Slavic'' and little Balkan for standard Croatian. Probably my East European comes from German ancestry too, because they were from Hungary and probably mixed with locals.

[Dibran]

I am not suprised, because on DNA land I get very high ''North Slavic'' and little Balkan for standard Croatian. Probably my East European comes from German ancestry too, because they were from Hungary and probably mixed with locals.

That is very possible as well. Did not know of German ancestry, my bad. I just read the side profile.

[Skjaldemjøden]

I've shunned this company for years. They make a ton of money off your genealogical research, their software is extremely invasive and their costumer service is completely inept. I changed all the names in my 23andme tree before it was migrated to their website.

[Lek]

As I understand it( based on albanian results on other forums) a general 50/50 balkan and greek is common for malesor albanians, albanians from montenegro, and albanians from Kosova. Albanians from central southern albania and macedonia, get predominantly Greek.

For example:

Me -
Greek 76%
Balkan 16%
Italian 8%

Father:

Greek 98%
Italian 2%

My mother is from Malesia, from Puka, and she increased the Balkan percentage for me.

If you look at the regions encompassed by the reference, Greek tapers out at central albania, whereas balkan tapers off at northern Albania. They just label it greek and balkan so it can be confusing.

The Balkan component also has higher slavic admixture as Greek is supposed to represent classical era I guess.

Greeks dont even score 100 percent Greek. So I think its representative of some neolithic component, where balkan has more steppe admixture? Idk

My family is from Diber Vogel in Okshtun, very isolated. My mom increased the balkan on myheritage, whereas my father had none.

If you look at the Croatian above, ''Feiichy'' , she gets Greek but no Balkan so I don't think Balkan is slavic. Greek and Balkan seem to be the same and many Kosovars and North Albanians Ive seen here get like 70% Greek.

Some South Slavs get Greek, some Balkan, some get both.

This test is just not accurate and shouldnt be taken serious.

It supposedly goes like 500 years back like 23andme , the average Albanian ive seen gets 20%-30% Balkan here.. We dont have this much slavic admixture as we have taken other tests were we dont get much east euro or north slavic... I doubt every Albanian has slavic ancestry. These autosomal tests are rather mind boggling.

neither does their Balkan cover north slavs... it peaks in Albanians and some south slavs like montenigrins and hercegovinians going by their map.


I am very Northern plotting but the component that pulls me north ''north sea'' peaks in Germanics and I also match a I1 Serb who also matches other I1 Albanians in the Albanian bloodline project. He comes from a tribe that supposedly was gothic in origin and then became Vlach/Albanian and later Serbs. And we share german matches. Goths originated in sweden gotaland.

This why I wanted to do more autosomal tests to see if it detects any slavic or germanic but so far nothing... but othee Albs here get north west , etc ... really weird tests these things...

[Annie999]

I tried MyHeritageDNA with 2 raw datas (23andme and AncestryDNA) and my results were very accurate, with small differences between them.

[Lek]

I am not suprised, because on DNA land I get very high ''North Slavic'' and little Balkan for standard Croatian. Probably my East European comes from German ancestry too, because they were from Hungary and probably mixed with locals.

An Albanian i know got 70% Balkan , on 23andme he gets 94% Balkan and only some east euro noice... like 0,4 % ...

On dna land with 23andme data uploaded he only got like 4% north slavic while with ftdna data 99% Balkan and 1% south west euro... on ftdna he got 8% british isles , rest Balkan if i remember correct.. while i only get Balkan... we are both Northern plotting and share same ydna and are related .. whats weird, some Albanians who seem to have more slavic ancestry than me are more south plotting

[Potentia]

It is completely accurate, mates.

My Native score even jumped quite a bit.

https://i.gyazo.com/67b524e58c5d1ec3e2ab7b1d3713cec8.png

[Peterski]

Sephardic Jews are also mixed with Europeans, just like Ashkenazi Jews.

The main difference is that they are mixed with other Europeans groups.

Here are some nMonte ancestry models for Jews, posted on Anthrogenica:

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?214281-How-Polish-are-Ashkenazi-Jews&p=4489225&viewfull=1#post4489225


this is what Ashkenazi Jews get if I use K7:

[1] "distance%=0.2834 / distance=0.002834"

Ashkenazi_Jew:average

Levant_Neolithic:I1704 38.50
Italian_Tuscan:average 25.70
Iran_Chalcolithic:average 19.70
Polish:average 13.35
Lithuanian:average 2.75

(...) this is what Sephardim get:

[1] "distance%=0.175 / distance=0.00175"

Sephardic_Jew:average

Levant_Neolithic:I1704 36.70
Italian_Tuscan:average 24.30
Iran_Chalcolithic:average 20.10
Italian_Bergamo:average 10.85
Spanish:average 6.35
Avar:average 1.70

[Rethel]

Are ancient levant and iranian contained in polish and lithuanian, or it is separated in this achkenazi probe in iranian and levantic totaly?

[kingjohn]

it is eastern european signitures
in aschenazi people my brother 7% balto slavic + 4.5% finnish in dna tribes table 2: 11-12% north eastern european genes in eastern aschenazi
i don't score finnish
but i do score 13% balto-slavic in table 2 in dna tribes

[Isleño]

Sephardic Jews are also mixed with Europeans, just like Ashkenazi Jews.

The main difference is that they are mixed with other Europeans groups.

Here are some nMonte ancestry models for Jews, posted on Anthrogenica:

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?214281-How-Polish-are-Ashkenazi-Jews&p=4489225&viewfull=1#post4489225Ashkenazim and Sephardim are nearly identical, except their non-Tuscan European is just a different part of Europe, Northern/Eastern Europe for Ashkenazi and Southern European for Sephardi and even these percentages are near identical in total. Pretty cool.

[kingjohn]

It is completely accurate, mates.

My Native score even jumped quite a bit.

https://i.gyazo.com/67b524e58c5d1ec3e2ab7b1d3713cec8.png


thats because the native americanrefrence in my heritage includes
mestizo people so some of it is realy iberian
regards
Adam

look for yourself this is how they describe this component {middle of the page }
http://www.geneamusings.com/2017/05/my-ethnicity-analysis-from-myheritage.html

[Longbowman]

It is completely accurate, mates.

My Native score even jumped quite a bit.

https://i.gyazo.com/67b524e58c5d1ec3e2ab7b1d3713cec8.png

'I want it to be accurate because it gives me results I like so it is.'

[Longbowman]

Sephardic Jews are also mixed with Europeans, just like Ashkenazi Jews.

The main difference is that they are mixed with other Europeans groups.

Here are some nMonte ancestry models for Jews, posted on Anthrogenica:

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?214281-How-Polish-are-Ashkenazi-Jews&p=4489225&viewfull=1#post4489225

True but irrelevant to the point.

[Peterski]

It is completely accurate, mates.

My Native score even jumped quite a bit.

https://i.gyazo.com/67b524e58c5d1ec3e2ab7b1d3713cec8.png

Interesting that it gave you Japanese instead of Chinese !!!

Do you remember my K36 nMonte run for you? It gave you some East Asian and you said that it was accurate because you have some Chinese ancestry. But I didn't tell you, that it was Japanese.

My nMonte also showed that your East Asian is "Japanese-like". However, I suppose that certain Chinese groups are genetically very similar to the Japenese. But not all Chinese groups are so similar.

[Alessio]

https://s1.postimg.org/6fjum99t7/My_Heritage.jpg (https://postimg.org/image/6fjum99t7/)

My mom and grandfather got 100% North (Western) Europe.

[Gangrel]

My results should arrive between July 31st and August 14th, I'll post it here when it comes

[Alessio]

https://s1.postimg.org/6fjum99t7/My_Heritage.jpg (https://postimg.org/image/6fjum99t7/)

My mom and grandfather got 100% North (Western) Europe.

It's the most worthless ethnicity estimation ever! Someone with similar ancestry got 15% italian and lots of West Asian and some Middle Eastern. I get too much ''Italian'', so both are possible everytime they run your genome in case of Southern Italians or those with mixed ancestry; they just don't know what to do with it.

[Sikeliot]

Here is a Sicilian from deep inland in Caltanissetta. So far this is the most "European" Sicilian yet and the first to show signs of Norman ancestry on here... his haplogroup is I1 and he is much less Near Eastern than others from his region but here y'all go:

Italian: 42.7%
Greek: 22.8%
North and West Europe: 8.7%
Ashkenazi: 6.7%
North Africa: 9.8%
Middle East: 9.3%

[Bobby Martnen]

How is it this out of kilter?

You're 1/2 Ashkenazi and 1/2 Sephardic, correct?

[Longbowman]

You're 1/2 Ashkenazi and 1/2 Sephardic, correct?

More like 13/16 Ashkenazi, 1/8 Sephardi, 1/16 Iraqi-Indian Jewish

[jingorex]

I dont have a screen of the original but this is now and pretty much the same ftdna says.

https://s8.postimg.org/pqneva1t1/myheritagemap_B.png

[nittionia]

From my mom and I. Beautiful
https://i.imgur.com/LSMgS13.png

https://i.imgur.com/vFDERMt.png

[CommonSense]

Sneak peak at the new MyHeritage update that is coming soon. Seems like they are taking a leaf from 23andMe's book:

https://www.reddit.com/r/23andme/comments/fdyinn/myheritage_update_coming_this_month/

https://i.redd.it/qay5lz8w0wk41.jpg

[JosephK]

Sneak peak at the new MyHeritage update that is coming soon. Seems like they are taking a leaf from 23andMe's book:

https://www.reddit.com/r/23andme/comments/fdyinn/myheritage_update_coming_this_month/



Is there some actual evidence that there is such an update coming?

[Ion Basescul]

Sneak peak at the new MyHeritage update that is coming soon. Seems like they are taking a leaf from 23andMe's book:

https://www.reddit.com/r/23andme/comments/fdyinn/myheritage_update_coming_this_month/

https://i.redd.it/qay5lz8w0wk41.jpg

This month? Pog

[CommonSense]

Is there some actual evidence that there is such an update coming?

Yes, the OP of the thread posted a video link where some MyHeritage executive talks about the updates coming in one month and shows an example on the big screen. That conference was in February.

[Pine]

This month? Pog

He said: "in the coming months"

[waam]

It doesn't seem like they added any additional reference population though, just added genetic communities.

[IrisSelene]

Sneak peak at the new MyHeritage update that is coming soon. Seems like they are taking a leaf from 23andMe's book:

https://www.reddit.com/r/23andme/comments/fdyinn/myheritage_update_coming_this_month/

https://i.redd.it/qay5lz8w0wk41.jpgOoh fuck I keep thinking about sending in for my heritage too and this isn't helping me keep my money lol

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[Harley]

https://i.ibb.co/0DH15PH/1-FC5-A642-810-D-41-CB-A627-D8-FC694-B30-AB.png

Since I already spammed dc with my MH results lol.

[Rædwald]

https://i.postimg.cc/VL98rwc8/Capture.png

[Longbowman]

Mine, now not on Tinypic

https://i.imgur.com/bwOPFUx.png
https://i.imgur.com/Bq8lxUg.png
https://i.imgur.com/q8nYqo3.png

[Hithaeglir]

These are the results I got after I uploaded my raw data from 23&me. Seems a little puzzling to me.

https://i.imgur.com/MPVyXLB.png?1