IllustrativeDNA is integrating QpAdm via their new "Admix Lab"

[drb234]

https://i.postimg.cc/q7KJjTYh/image.png

[Beowulf]

This is quite promising!!

[Opie]

Great news.

[Gannicus]

Good to see. It's about time. Hopefully it's a super user friendly ui, such as default outgoups and as easy to use as Vahaduo.

[Opie]

They said soon but still haven’t added QAPDM…

[Tie red]

They said soon but still haven’t added QAPDM…

Careful, we never know with these guys : they teased an IBD analysis that have never been released

https://www.reddit.com/r/illustrativeDNA/comments/1f3d6nk/anyone_know_when_popwise_ibd_will_be_released/

[Gannicus]

Careful, we never know with these guys : they teased an IBD analysis that have never been released

https://www.reddit.com/r/illustrativeDNA/comments/1f3d6nk/anyone_know_when_popwise_ibd_will_be_released/

I remember that announcement. I hope this time it's for real.

[Opie]

They released it. 17 Euros for a month.

[mariusz99]

Is it possible to work only with ancient samples, or also with modern ones?

[Gannicus]

I have ran a few models. I may have to contact support because it won’t let me use my merged file. They still lack built in reliable reference populations, which the user will have to figure out. It may need some more work.141678

[Gannicus]

Is it possible to work only with ancient samples, or also with modern ones?I haven’t tried moderns yet. I would think so because I have Mbuti as one of my reference populations

[Lard]

Tried both IllustrativeDNA and DNA Genics. Honestly just G25 with a facelift. Now they bolt QpAdm onto it like that changes anything. You don’t get control over right pops, no stderr visible, no rejection thresholds — just click and believe. Looks good, but it’s still curated output designed to impress casuals, not tell the truth.

Half the people using this stuff — especially Ashkenazim — are trying to manifest ancestry they wish they had. You’ll see the usual “Levantine Bronze Age + Northern Italian” models over and over, like some sacred combo that magically dodges Greece, Anatolia, or South Italy on PCA every time. It’s always the same cope: Canaanite priests plus Roman senators. Never mind that their actual heatmap lights up in Western Asia Minor, the Aegean, or Magna Graecia. If your genome’s dragging itself toward Smyrna but your model insists on ancient Tuscany, it’s not heritage — it’s a roleplay.

Real transparency means matching your model to your PCA gravity and actually including those regions in your sources. Until then it’s ancestry cosplay with fancy gradients.