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Your spot on the map is in very far northwestern Iran. You are close to, but not
in, the Turkish comparison population. The test says you are a mix of 60% Iranian, 15%
Siberian and the rest Italian-Spanish. This is bizarre, but the average is close to Turkey.
A test of "mixing age" says that any mixing is ancient ... well more than 10 generations.
The best indication is the rotating plot. You are off in the middle of nowhere, which
means that you are surely mixed populations ... but that other test says it was very old mixing.
When the rotating plot looks like you do, one simply has to trust the mathematical
workings.
You are, by far, the most interesting person I have seen using the v3 chip.
When I asked what the Spanish/Italian, Iranian etc. meant, he said this:
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What it means is that the way the test works, it computes what sort of set of people
it needs to "average out" the way you DNA is. What matters is the average. There are
two cases:
1) you come ancestors who have lived in roughly the same place for many generations.
But the program does not have that set of people (e.g. Germans or Navajos) as
a reference population. It selects a set of references that average out in that spot.
2) you are a mixture, recently, of reference populations (say Spain, Yoruba, and Maya for
somebody from Mexico.) Since these are reference populations, it will correctly calculate
what fraction of your ancestry comes from each.
If you are a recent mixture but the exact populations you come from are not
in the reference set, it will pick nearby ones, and then the percentages will
only be approximate.
You are likely case 1. The exact set of Turks it used is not exactly like you,
so it picked a close set as the major one (Iranians) and modified it by adding
in a bit of people from NE and west. In other words, your spot on the map to the NW
of Iran (since the amount of Mediterranean is larger than Siberian.
