Eastern European and Balkans genetic ethnicities per country according to MyHeritage

[Terminator98]

Not really, the Paleo-Balkan component is Greek & South Italian, as strange as that sounds. It's not uncommon to find Ukrainians and Poles scoring over 50% Balkan.

And what did I said? I said that "Balkan" category is mixed category which contains around 50% of Slavic and 50% of pre-Slavic genetics. It's hybrid category which is closest to Serbian average (50/50), that's why almost every Serb gets "Balkan" + something else (or, in some cases nothing else). About UA/POL, I know that some of them have certain "Vlach" admixture, but I've never seen anyone from these two countries with 50% of "Balkan" or over.

[Ion Basescul]

And what did I said? I said that "Balkan" category is mixed category which contains around 50% of Slavic and 50% of pre-Slavic genetics. It's hybrid category which is closest to Serbian average (50/50), that's why almost every Serb gets "Balkan" + something else (or, in some cases nothing else). About UA/POL, I know that some of them have certain "Vlach" admixture, but I've never seen anyone from these two countries with 50% of "Balkan" or over.

We misunderstood each other then. What I meant is that Balkan here is radically different than on 23andme, where both Albanians/Greeks and Serbs/Croats can score 100% of it. Here that doesn't happen.

[vbnetkhio]

Not really, the Paleo-Balkan component is Greek & South Italian, as strange as that sounds. It's not uncommon to find Ukrainians and Poles scoring over 50% Balkan.

some South Slavs get a combination of Greek & South Italian and East Euro, and some get 80%+ Balkan instead.
from what i've seen, those from Serbia,Bosnia and Montenegro tend to get the 80%+ Balkan, while other south Slavs get that Greek/East Euro combination instead, but i've seen very few results.

and anyways, all of this will change completely with the ethnicity update.

[noricum]

...and anyways, all of this will change completely with the ethnicity update.

Thanks, when is this update sceduled to come?

[vbnetkhio]

Thanks, when is this update sceduled to come?

I think it was supposed to come together with the genetic communities update, but they decided to release those earlier, and postpone the ethnicity update for later, so it should come soon, I guess.

[Universe]

German admixture can show up as NW Euro and also as Scandinavian on myheritage tests. So since 30% of Hungarians score some Scandinavian, in reality more than 40% of Hungarian scored some German, but we don't know exactly how much of them did because the two overlaps: a person can score NW euro and Scandinavian at the same time. So this "study" is total BS in my eyes, because it doesn't answer anything and only creates further questions. Why couldn't they just create country avarages which display how much % Eastern European, Balkan, NW Euro etc the avarage person from a country scores (and those percentages should add up to 100 of course)

Yup, a very good additional point to keep in mind.

I scored "7.5% Welsh/Irish/Scottish" on myheritage... so yeah. On the other hand MH rawdata is better than 23andme afaik.

[Dunai]

German admixture can show up as NW Euro and also as Scandinavian on myheritage tests. So since 30% of Hungarians score some Scandinavian, in reality more than 40% of Hungarian scored some German, but we don't know exactly how much of them did because the two overlaps: a person can score NW euro and Scandinavian at the same time. So this "study" is total BS in my eyes, because it doesn't answer anything and only creates further questions. Why couldn't they just create country avarages which display how much % Eastern European, Balkan, NW Euro etc the avarage person from a country scores (and those percentages should add up to 100 of course)
I scored "7.5% Welsh/Irish/Scottish" on myheritage... so yeah. On the other hand MH rawdata is better than 23andme afaik.

Country average would already be a much bigger improvement to what they provide now, but ethnic averages would be even more helpful, since many countries have multiethnic populations, so the country average wouldn't really reflect in such cases the real ancestry of the historically majority population of that given country. In Hungary every citizen of our country is a Hungarian national, no matter race, language spoken or creed, but there is also a Hungarian ethnicity within it, which is different based on culture, language, historical ancestry and so on from Hungarians of German, Roma, Jewish, mixed or any other ancestry.