Got my yDNA results, I am very confused! Help..

[Willem]

Hello I need some help with my yDNA results.

Phenotypically, I look completely European (I am Dutch) but my ancestry results said I have the E1b1a8a haplogroup. This is a Nigerian gene. How is this possible if I have blond hair and blue eyes?

[Ibericus]

Hello I need some help with my yDNA results.

Phenotypically, I look completely European (I am Dutch) but my ancestry results said I have the E1b1a8a haplogroup. This is a Nigerian gene. How is this possible if I have blond hair and blue eyes?

Surely from black slave from the colonies. After 200 years you can already look normal dutch. Btw what is your autosomal ancestry percentages ?

[Willem]

Surely from black slave from the colonies from. After 200 years you can already look normal dutch

I actually live in Europe. The only non-Dutch ancestry I am aware of is French Huguenot.

Does this mean I am part black?

what is your autosomal ancestry percentages ?

98% Europe
1% Asia
1% Africa

[poiuytrewq0987]

Did you use 23andme or something else?

[Willem]

Did you use 23andme or something else?

Yes

Is this a mistake you think? It is so weird for me to have a Nigerian haplogroup

[Ibericus]

I actually live in Europe. The only non-Dutch ancestry I am aware of is French Huguenot.

Does this mean I am part black?



98% Europe
1% Asia
1% Africa

Send your raw data to Dr. McDonalds to see if this 1% african is just noise or its underestimated for african. Thoug this E3a could have entered in very ancient times.

[poiuytrewq0987]

Surely from black slave from the colonies. After 200 years you can already look normal dutch. Btw what is your autosomal ancestry percentages ?

I wouldn't rule this out.

[Loki]

Hello I need some help with my yDNA results.

Phenotypically, I look completely European (I am Dutch) but my ancestry results said I have the E1b1a8a haplogroup. This is a Nigerian gene. How is this possible if I have blond hair and blue eyes?

Hi Willem, and welcome to the forum.

It is very possible to have physical traits that look 100% European, even blond/blue as you say, and have some genes of ancestors way back some hundreds of years ago. Improbable but there certainly are people like that in European countries that had colonies some centuries ago. The genes filter through the generations, becoming phenotypically indistinguishable from the surrounding population, yet still carrying this gene marker.

[Willem]

Send your raw data to Dr. McDonalds to see if this 1% african is just noise or its underestimated for african. Thoug this E3a could have entered in very ancient times.

How do I send it to him? What do you mean by 'in very ancient times'? Has it been found elsewhere in Europe?

[Loki]

Yes

Is this a mistake you think? It is so weird for me to have a Nigerian haplogroup

It may very well be a mistake, too. The Netherlands did not have influence in Nigeria as far as I know. If I were you, I'd get a second opinion. It's possible they've mixed up the results.