CommonSense's FTDNA results are in!!

[Dukagjini]

Does FTDNA really go back 5000 years, as advertised?

[Ayetooey]

Or maybe he's just a Croat who believes he's Serb

jk mates

[Ford]

Does FTDNA really go back 5000 years, as advertised?

Probably, if you take the ancientOrigins calculator into account, while myOrigins has to be relatively recent (a few centuries).

[Tschaikisten]

North_Sea 18.90
Atlantic 14.03
Baltic 21.74
Eastern_Euro 12.76
West_Med 13.60
West_Asian 5.77
East_Med 11.84
Red_Sea 0.40
Siberian 0.93

Ближи си ујкама чак и од мене, познатог аутосомалног ујке.

Does FTDNA really go back 5000 years, as advertised?

Nope, just commercial marketing shit.

[Dukagjini]

Probably, if you take the ancientOrigins calculator into account, while myOrigins has to be relatively recent (a few centuries).

So more than any other company? If so, FTDNA is probably the best for balkan people, for detecting paleo-balkanic, slavic, and all ancestry.

Not sure how good there chip actually is though.

[Dukagjini]

Nope, just commercial marketing shit.

This may be true, but I've seen Albos on FTDNA specifically score like 5-20% East Euro, and don't seem to score it on other testing companies like 23andme, etc..

[Ayetooey]

This may be true, but I've seen Albos on FTDNA specifically score like 5-20% East Euro, and don't seem to score it on other testing companies like 23andme, etc..

Most from what i've seen score 100% SE Europe on FTDNA, I've seen a few score minor EE but they often have some montenegrin ancestors or suming. Serbs score closer to 50/50 which is accurate, though some are more SE shifted some EE shifted.

[Ford]

So more than any other company? If so, FTDNA is probably the best for balkan people, for detecting paleo-balkanic, slavic, and all ancestry.

Not sure how good there chip actually is though.

I'm not so sure about that. I would have to agree with Tschaikisten with it being commercial garbage. The ancient populations is only divided into four categories: Metal Age Invader, Farmer, Hunter-Gatherer and non-European, so it doesn't really say anything of any substance.

[Tschaikisten]

I'm not so sure about that. I would have to agree with Tschaikisten with it being commercial garbage. The ancient populations is only divided into four categories: Metal Age Invader, Farmer, Hunter-Gatherer and non-European, so it doesn't really say anything of any substance.

Check thread on Anthrogenica about it, you'll find how it's crap.

[Dick]

Most from what i've seen score 100% SE Europe on FTDNA, I've seen a few score minor EE but they often have some montenegrin ancestors or suming. Serbs score closer to 50/50 which is accurate, though some are more SE shifted some EE shifted.

It's taking into accout Steppe, whg, EEF etc. which all Euro polupations have in varying percentages. Peterski summed it up pretty well.

Give me ancient Thracian and Proto-Slavic DNA, and I can check what proportion of both groups are Serbs descended from.

So yeah, it is very useful.

The only problem is that so far we have no any good-quality samples of ancient Thracian DNA and ancient Proto-Slavic DNA.

Right now I can use Albanian DNA as a proxy to Thracian, and e.g. Belgorod as a proxy to Slavic.

But of course these will be just guesses, as long as we have no relevant ancient DNA samples.