Pontic Greek Gedmatch results

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Originally Posted by AncientGreek

I think MyHeritage is pretty trash at predicting admixture, it gives me 30% Sephardic Jew for example. :icon_rolleyes: If he has full Russian matches that are not extremely distant that would be enough proof of that kind of ancestry.

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I never understood why they separate jewish as a different admix. Why they dont just score med/middle eastern instead of many different jewish admix branches...

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Originally Posted by Dorian

I have no idea but with 1/8 ,I'd expect even some kind of noise..

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Me too :confused:

Its a sum of parts of shared ancestry and combination of results. Some Turkish have high shared ancestry with native Anatoilians in Greece and will give "Greek" results. Same is true with Baltic and whatever.

Perhaps OP's Russian grandfather is of Caucasian descent in reality? That could explain the MH result

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Originally Posted by Hapanuwa

Perhaps OP's Russian grandfather is of Caucasian descent in reality? That could explain the MH result

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Russopontians are at least 25% native Russian and different to Crimean Greeks.

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Originally Posted by Roman-Anatolian

Me too :confused:

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If you ever test again, do 23andme. It's the best for seeing admixtures in the correct proportions (mostly).

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Originally Posted by Gecko

I never understood why they separate jewish as a different admix. Why they dont just score med/middle eastern instead of many different jewish admix branches...

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It's fine if they can accurately detect it (like 23andme with Ashkenazi and FTDNA with Sephardic), but MyHeritage can't and gives random Sephardic to non-Jews, so they should really avoid having it as a category until they can sort it out.

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Originally Posted by AncientGreek

It's fine if they can accurately detect it (like 23andme with Ashkenazi and FTDNA with Sephardic), but MyHeritage can't and gives random Sephardic to non-Jews, so they should really avoid having it as a category until they can sort it out.

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I even dont understand this ashkenazi admix. They just middle easteners(or east med) with european admix. Someones near eastern admix could came from another reason. So some score up to 5% ashkenazi, wow that makes 3% east med...

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Originally Posted by AncientGreek

If you ever test again, do 23andme. It's the best for seeing admixtures in the correct proportions (mostly).

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Have you ever done 23andMe?

So is Gedmatch accurate or does it depend on the DNA company from which I will transfer my kit?