West Asian of MyHeritage DNA

[we92]

When watching some MyHeritage DNA videos on YouTube, I saw that some Greeks and South Italians score decent amount of West Asian. On the website of MyHeritage DNA, it says West Asian represents modern day Iranic and Turkic people but if I am not wrong, Greeks and Italians don't have any Turkic and Iranic admixture. So, is it just a noise on Greeks' and Italians' results?

[Kyp]

When watching some MyHeritage DNA videos on YouTube, I saw that some Greeks and South Italians score decent amount of West Asian. On the website of MyHeritage DNA, it says West Asian represents modern day Iranic and Turkic people but if I am not wrong, Greeks and Italians don't have any Turkic and Iranic admixture. So, is it just a noise on Greeks' and Italians' results?

It's not noise.. They do have shared ancestry. Frequency of YDNA J2 is the evidence for it:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Distribution_Haplogroup_J2_Y-DNA.svg/1200px-Distribution_Haplogroup_J2_Y-DNA.svg.png

[we92]

It's not noise.. They do have shared ancestry. Frequency of YDNA J2 is the evidence for it:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Distribution_Haplogroup_J2_Y-DNA.svg/1200px-Distribution_Haplogroup_J2_Y-DNA.svg.png

But J2 is not Iranic or Turkic. J1 and J2 are Caucasus Hunter Gatherers if I am not wrong.

[Kyp]

But J2 is not Iranic or Turkic. J1 and J2 are Caucasus Hunter Gatherers if I am not wrong.

J2 is neither Iranian, Anatolian or CHG. It's just evidence for the shared ancestry. It originated somwhere in West Asia.

[gültekin]

When watching some MyHeritage DNA videos on YouTube, I saw that some Greeks and South Italians score decent amount of West Asian. On the website of MyHeritage DNA, it says West Asian represents modern day Iranic and Turkic people but if I am not wrong, Greeks and Italians don't have any Turkic and Iranic admixture. So, is it just a noise on Greeks' and Italians' results?
yes its says so, but utterly bulshit, i score only 7.8 west asian . Don't take myheritage ethnicity estimate as serious mate,
For expl. the Japanese are only %42 "Japanese" according to them :laugh:
https://i.postimg.cc/fyhDWLkW/Capture.jpg

[Kyp]

yes its says so, but utterly bulshit, i score only 7.8 west asian . Don't take myheritage ethnicity estimate as serious mate,
For expl. the Japanese are only %42 "Japanese" according to them :laugh:
https://i.postimg.cc/fyhDWLkW/Capture.jpg

No this only means: 41.9 % People who have tested in Japan scored Japanese. I guess a good chunk of people who test in Japan with Myheritage are foreigners.

[Reis-i Cumhur]

yes its says so, but utterly bulshit, i score only 7.8 west asian . Don't take myheritage ethnicity estimate as serious mate,
For expl. the Japanese are only %42 "Japanese" according to them :laugh:
https://i.postimg.cc/fyhDWLkW/Capture.jpg


According to Myheritage,We are all Greek.Almost every turks get greek dna on myheritage LOL.
Also i know a guy who scored no central asia but he was about %10 mongoloid.So Myheritage's west asia has %100 Oghuz turk admixture

[gültekin]

According to Myheritage,We are all Greek.Almost every turks get greek dna on myheritage LOL.
Also i know a guy who scored no central asia but he was about %10 mongoloid.So Myheritage's west asia has %100 Oghuz turk admixture
hass siktir lan kıro :laugh:

[Reis-i Cumhur]

hass siktir lan kıro :laugh:

Sor kaspiasa.%100 Batı asyanın içerisinde türki admixture var

[AncientGreek]

MyHeritage can't even distinguish Sardinian or Ashkenazi admixture correctly, so anything it predicts is honestly useless. Some of my matches have over 40% Sardinian and they are 100% Greek, it's the worst service possible to see admixture. 23andme on other hand hides Anatolian (not Turkic) admixture in 'Italian' category, as seen in my results (over 40% Italian, but I'm Greek from Dodecanese) so all these tests are useless for determing amount of 'West Asian' admixture if you're Italian or Greek islander. They don't actually tell you the proper amount of West Asian/Anatolian admixture, because they can't actually detect it properly.

[Rgvgjhvv]

MyHeritage can't even distinguish Sardinian or Ashkenazi admixture correctly, so anything it predicts is honestly useless. Some of my matches have over 40% Sardinian and they are 100% Greek, it's the worst service possible to see admixture. 23andme on other hand hides Anatolian (not Turkic) admixture in 'Italian' category, as seen in my results (over 40% Italian, but I'm Greek from Dodecanese) so all these tests are useless for determing amount of 'West Asian' admixture if you're Italian or Greek islander. They don't actually tell you the proper amount of West Asian/Anatolian admixture, because they can't actually detect it properly.

I find the raw data to be good though at least.

[AncientGreek]

I find the raw data to be good though at least.

True, from a cost perspective, MyHeritage is the best way to get quality raw data. But their admixture reports are terrible for many, that's for certain.

[we92]

J2 is neither Iranian, Anatolian or CHG. It's just evidence for the shared ancestry. It originated somwhere in West Asia.

More or less, every ethnic group have some shared ancestry between each other. Therefore, I don't think Greeks' and Italians' West Asian is just shared ancestry.