My FTDNA results

[farke1]

You sure? 18% doesn't sound crazy to me, atleast from a danish perspective, cause many of my danish matches get 10-50% English.
I guess the tests lean more towards calling actual scandinavian/NW coast heritage for "english" rather than the other way around, so that the inaccuracy is worse for coastal europeans versus brits. (Hope u understand what i mean)

It's not "crazy" I suppose, but I'd still say that it's higher than is typical. Ancestry released some figures for the average percentages of certain ethnicities based on people's locations in the British Isles (I'll try and find the article I'm talking about in a second - edit: here's the article) and as far as I remember the highest averaged score was for people in the East Midlands, who scored around 10% Scandinavian on average. I agree that the problem is worse for Danish people though, I've seen many Danish people revealing their DNA test results on YouTube and they all seem to get a ridiculously high amount of English and NW European. I'd imagine it's the high frequency of people testing from the British Isles that skews the results for others somewhat, but I'm not sure.

[nittionia]

I agree that FTDNA and MyHeritage (aka the "everyone gets Finnish and/or Sardinian regardless of their origin" test) are garbage, but Ancestry is generally pretty good for most people. Did you try Ancestry before or after the last update? I think it's improved a lot over the past year.

I did ancestry in 2014 I think. It has updated my results since then but it's still way off for me. I wonder if it's because my kit is older than most people's?

[Matxe92]

It's not "crazy" I suppose, but I'd still say that it's higher than is typical. Ancestry released some figures for the average percentages of certain ethnicities based on people's locations in the British Isles (I'll try and find the article I'm talking about in a second - edit: here's the article) and as far as I remember the highest averaged score was for people in the East Midlands, who scored around 10% Scandinavian on average. I agree that the problem is worse for Danish people though, I've seen many Danish people revealing their DNA test results on YouTube and they all seem to get a ridiculously high amount of English and NW European. I'd imagine it's the high frequency of people testing from the British Isles that skews the results for others somewhat, but I'm not sure.

Oh really, please find it i would love to see it.

Well, could also be that danes and especially danes with jutish ancestry have a high atlantic genetic component which is associated with britain that is the underlying reason for the high frequency of NW atlantic heritage in tests. We are primarily scandinavian obviously, but don't be surprised to see danes get 50/50 split scandinavian/nweuro. Seen it numerous times.

[farke1]

I did ancestry in 2014 I think. It has updated my results since then but it's still way off for me. I wonder if it's because my kit is older than most people's?

Oh wow. That's before I was really into genetics and so on so I can't really give you a definite answer, but it's possible that they haven't updated their very old genotyping chips I suppose (23andme users on the V3 + V4 chips don't have beta results right now, for example). In my case, I tested in July 2018 and then I got an update the following September - and the update was way more accurate for me. Hopefully someone with more knowledge can answer your question.

[farke1]

Oh really, please find it i would love to see it.

Well, could also be that danes and especially danes with jutish ancestry have a high atlantic genetic component which is associated with britain that is the underlying reason for the high frequency of NW atlantic heritage in tests. We are primarily scandinavian obviously, but don't be surprised to see danes get 50/50 split scandinavian/nweuro. Seen it numerous times.

Updated my post. I think you're right, and particularly the Danes of Jutish origin are probably closer to the original unmixed Anglo-Saxons than many modern day British people, who have had extensive Celtic and Romance influence. I suppose it makes sense that many Danes score highly for English and NW European DNA, but I do wonder how companies like 23andme are able to distinguish the DNA more accurately and sort Danish into its own category while other companies can't.

[Annihilus]

FTDNA's myOrigins is pure crap imo.

[Matxe92]

Updated my post. I think you're right, and particularly the Danes of Jutish origin are probably closer to the original unmixed Anglo-Saxons than many modern day British people, who have had extensive Celtic and Romance influence. I suppose it makes sense that many Danes score highly for English and NW European DNA, but I do wonder how companies like 23andme are able to distinguish the DNA more accurately and sort Danish into its own category while other companies can't.

Do you have a 100% dane 23andme result you can show?

[farke1]

Do you have a 100% dane 23andme result you can show?

As in scoring 100% Denmark, sadly no. That'd be quite a spectacle, though. Here's the result from a guy who claims to be '100% Danish' and from Jutland, though: https://you.23andme.com/published/re...77779c6c2647fc

[Matxe92]

As in scoring 100% Denmark, sadly no. That'd be quite a spectacle, though. Here's the result from a guy who claims to be '100% Danish' and from Jutland, though: https://you.23andme.com/published/re...77779c6c2647fc

Yea i meant as in 100% danish on the papertrail. Is there a chance you could snapshot it and post his results, cause it requires me to create and account etc..

[farke1]

Yea i meant as in 100% danish on the papertrail. Is there a chance you could snapshot it and post his results, cause it requires me to create and account etc..

No problem. Sorry that we derailed your thread a little, OP; but I'll leave it here in case anyone else stumbles across it and is interested.



edit: Just for the record I don't know this person, but I don't think it's necessary to blur out their name/avatar as they shared it with their name publicly visible on reddit.