Judging by my genetics, which ethnic group would you say I am?

Some fashion of Northern European.

GEDmatch gives a North German / Danish bias to British Isles people so those results back up your 23andMe - British/Irish with 1/4 to 1/2 Scandinavian. There is not really such a thing as 'averaging out' but you could call yourself GermanoCeltic or NordoCeltic or simply Northwestern European (NWE).

North German, Danish, Dutch, Southern English.

Uk + Norway+ German. And you look Norway.

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Originally Posted by Neon Knight

GEDmatch gives a North German / Danish bias to British Isles people so those results back up your 23andMe - British/Irish with 1/4 to 1/2 Scandinavian. There is not really such a thing as 'averaging out' but you could call yourself GermanoCeltic or NordoCeltic or simply Northwestern European (NWE).

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Well British/Irish and Scandinavian is basically what I am in real life so :)

Well, in real life, I am a mix of Irish, Scandinavian, German, British and Dutch basically. So it makes sense...

The only thing I don't get is the atypically high amount of West Asian. I wonder what it says about my genetics?

Well if race is a social construct then so are ethnic groups.

I would say probably just Northern Europe/North Western Europe.

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Originally Posted by Neon Knight

GEDmatch gives a North German / Danish bias to British Isles people so those results back up your 23andMe - British/Irish with 1/4 to 1/2 Scandinavian. There is not really such a thing as 'averaging out' but you could call yourself GermanoCeltic or NordoCeltic or simply Northwestern European (NWE).

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I do have two questions though

1. Is my ANE typical for ethnic groups in my family, or do I have an atypically high amount?
2. I know I have an atypically high amount of West Asian, but an atypically low amount of East Med. so I am wondering if it means anything?

Petalpusher has told me before he thinks I have a recent ancestor from the Caucasus, and this is the reason I have high West Asian and low East Med...I am not sure how plausible this theory is.

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Originally Posted by McCool

I do have two questions though

1. Is my ANE typical for ethnic groups in my family, or do I have an atypically high amount?
2. I know I have an atypically high amount of West Asian, but an atypically low amount of East Med. so I am wondering if it means anything?

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I'll show you mine:

Eurogenes K7
WHG-UHG 64.18%
ENF 17.20%
ANE 16.06%
ASE 1.47%
East Eurasian 0.47%
West African 0.45%
East African 0.17%

K13
North Atlantic -------- 46.85%
Baltic ------------------- 25.14%
West Med ------------- 16.78%
West Asian ------------ 7.05%
South Asian ----------- 1.28%
East Med --------------- 1.17%
Amerindian ------------ 1.05%
Oceanian --------------- 0.55%
Northeast African ----- 0.14%

Your results are probably within the normal range and always remember that these genetic tests are only approximate anyway so don't take them too seriously. Your results and known ancestry match up pretty well and that's that. The best you can do is more ancestry research and testing of other family members.