Canadian average autosomal breakdown -AncestryDNA.

[Voskos]

https://shawglobalnews.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/canada-dna.jpg

[Thambi]

wow why is east european so high? rest of the percentages make sense.

[J. Ketch]

Inaccurate.

[Dick]

That's from 2017 before their regional updates, anyway it's not an average Canadian result and was put together by Adna for Canada's 150th birthday

https://blogs.ancestry.ca/cm/canada-dn-eh-diversity-is-in-our-genes-amu/

[Babak]

3% for asia? Expecting more like 15 lmao

[J. Ketch]

wow why is east european so high? rest of the percentages make sense.
It's based on Ancestry's old pre-2018 references which were relatively few and made for poorly defined categories and inaccurate results.

For example, mine and my mother's old results:



Ireland & Scotland 60% (Range: 44%—73%)
Europe West 28% (Range: 7%—49%)
England, Wales & Northwestern Europe 9% (Range: 0%—27%)
Scandinavia 3% (Range: 0%—12%)


Europe West 41% (Range: 12%—69%)
Ireland/Scotland/Wales 40% (Range: 23%—57%)
Scandinavia 8% (Range: 0%—24%)
England, Wales & Northwestern Europe 6% (Range: 0%—23%)
Finland/Northwest Russia 3% (Range: 0%—7%)
Europe South 2% (Range: 0%—7%)

Europe West supposedly represents France and Germany but we don't have any continental ancestry, and England/Wales/NW Europe was actually the Great Britain category which we both got less than 10% despite being 50% and 100% in reality.

Results after the 2018 update by contrast



England, Wales & Northwestern Europe 53% (Range: 52%—58%)
Ireland & Scotland 47% (Range: 43%—53%)


England, Wales & Northwestern Europe 100% (Range: 96%—100%)

[J. Ketch]

The same results for the UK with the old Ancestry categories as a comparison with Canada:


The UK

British (36.94%), Irish (21.59%), Europe West (19.91%), Scandinavia (9.20%), Iberian Peninsula (3.05%), Italy/Greece (1.98%), Eastern Europe (1.84%), European Jewish (1.46%), Finland/Northwest Russia (1%)

England

British (37.61%), Europe West (20.45%), Irish (20%), Scandinavia (9.39%), Iberian Peninsula (3.09%), Italy/Greece (2.01%), Eastern Europe (1.85%), European Jewish (1.51%)

Scotland

Irish (43.84%), British (26.18%), Europe West (13.05%), Scandinavia (7.19%), Iberian Peninsula (2.30%), Eastern Europe (1.68%), Italy/Greece (1.63%), Finland/Northwest Russia (1.31%)

Wales

British (36.15%), Irish (31.99%), Europe West (14.70%), Scandinavia (6.64%), Iberian Peninsula (3.24%), Eastern Europe (1.85%), Italy/Greece (1.50%), European Jewish (1%)

Northern Ireland

Irish (48.49%), British (23.64%), Europe West (12.11%), Scandinavia (6.19%), Iberian Peninsula (2.07%), Italy/Greece (1.24%), Eastern Europe (1.10%)

https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/international/press-releases/DNA-of-the-nation-revealedand-were-not-as-British-as-we-think

[Leto]

Nice. A truly post-national nation
https://i.insider.com/5a8fe95daae6051d008b4592?width=1100&format=jpeg&auto=webp

[FilhoV]

I was expecting the Iberian Peninsula to be high considering the large number of Portuguese there

[Rædwald]

wow why is east european so high? rest of the percentages make sense.

There were a lot of Ukrainian and other eastern European Settlements on the prairies for a long time.

[Rædwald]

I'm surprised Amerindian is so low though, they're a pretty significant population still.

[Thambi]

3% for asia? Expecting more like 15 lmao

Haha not all of canada is like brampton or vancouver haha, but i know what you mean though lol. There are shit ton of chinese and punjabis in canada.

[Rgvgjhvv]

wow why is east european so high? rest of the percentages make sense.

Prairie provinces have an incredibly large number of ethnic Ukrainians

[Rgvgjhvv]

I was expecting the Iberian Peninsula to be high considering the large number of Portuguese there

They only live in a specific region.

[Peterski]

wow why is east european so high?

Central Canada is ~20-35% Slavic-Canadian:
(and nationwide Slavic-Canadians are >10%)

This map shows world countries with >10% Slavic population:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Slavic_World_updated.png/1280px-Slavic_World_updated.png

This map shows combined % of Slavic ancestries by region:

https://i.imgur.com/a7KJqnY.png

[Dick]

Haha not all of canada is like brampton or vancouver haha, but i know what you mean though lol. There are shit ton of chinese and punjabis in canada.

They have nicknames for a reason. Vancouver=Hongcouver. Brampton=Bramladesh