I wonder how much more accurate is Dr McDonalds DNA analysis than gedmatch?

[Congolese Rice]

Because tbh his analysis seems pretty spot on for the most part i was actually surprised as hell, but what was very unexpected even for me is him telling me i had 10% mixed east african and north african ancestry. Not even AncestryDNA, Gencove, DNA.LAND, MyHeritage OR Gedmatch told me i had North African or a decent amount of east african ancestry. Actually the highest north african i got was on Ethiohelix K10 + French and even there i heard its even common for europeans to score north african on there, furthermore i scored it on none of all the 55 tests or something on Gedmatch, i find it pretty strange. Also every test on Gedmatch told me i had atleast a few percentages of mediterranean, ranging from 5-24% throughout all the tests. and + west asian, sw asian, and native american those numbers quickly rose to 30-38%. How come he said i only had a few percent of mediterranean? even though my great grandmother has latin american ancestry? he also mentioned that my dna file was very difficult etc etc i said this on other posts aswell but how come? Am i this mixed that even McDonald cannot intepret my results well? :((

i think im shit outta luck when it comes 2 genealogy damn.

[CabOOM]

I believe it is difficult because there aren't that many samples outside of Europe, or Europe related people. With some time, and more samples you will get a better approximation.

[Congolese Rice]

I believe it is difficult because there aren't that many samples outside of Europe, or Europe related people. With some time, and more samples you will get a better approximation.

That is also true, but McDonald was able to accurately point out people their ethnicities but he had damn difficulties with mine, here i'll show you.


This is a difficult file. The African part is not clear, but is mostly western, probably somewhere near Nigeria.

Neither is the Euro clear at all. It is about 2% Native American. The best I can do is

Germany 0.6793 Moroccan 0.0317 Yoruba 0.2090 O-Ethiopian 0.0801 or
Germany 0.6784 Sicily 0.0230 Yoruba 0.2134 O-Ethiopian 0.0853 or
Germany 0.6354 Poland 0.0626 Yoruba 0.2113 O-Ethiopian 0.0907 or
Germany 0.6651 Romania 0.0351 Yoruba 0.2131 O-Ethiopian 0.0867 or
Russian 0.0260 Germany 0.6729 Yoruba 0.2119 O-Ethiopian 0.0892 or
Germany 0.6883 Tuscan 0.0109 Yoruba 0.2129 O-Ethiopian 0.0878 or
Italian 0.0064 Germany 0.6923 Yoruba 0.2126 O-Ethiopian 0.0886 or
English 0.3087 Poland 0.3879 Yoruba 0.2041 O-Ethiopian 0.0993

and THOSE ARE NOT RELIABLE! The “Mideast” on the chromosomes seems to actually be
either East coast Africa (Ethiopis) or north African.

I doubt if ANY systen current can do a really reliable job for you.

Doug McDonald


:/ still feel shit outta luck xd