Central Asian component of MyHeritage is about 85-90% East Eurasian

[reboun]

I sometimes watch MyHeritage videos on YouTube. Most Turkish people score at least some amount of Central Asian. If posted, I also look their GEDmatch results and their GEDmatch shows their East Eurasian (Siberian + East Asian + Amerindian) score is about 85-90% of their Central Asian score on MyHeritage. For example, if someone scored 10% Central Asian, they usually get 8.5-9% East Eurasian in total on GEDmatch.

Although modern-day Central Asians are about 50% East Eurasian in total, Central Asian on MyHeritage is about 85-90% East Eurasian when GEDmatch analysis is done. What is the reason behind that?

[reboun]

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[David24]

MyHeritage uses Hazaras as their reference for the Central Asian component (who are mainly of Mongolian descent). I think they should just update it and use Turkmens instead, then Turks would start scoring 50%+ Central Asian. Don't trust 23andme either! The so-called "Anatolian" component there is largely Central Asian! This huge mistake made by 23andme caused Central Asians like Turkmens and Uzbeks to start scoring around 50%~ Anatolian, which isn't true. It's the other way around, which most people don't realize, modern day so-called Anatolian Turks are heavily Central Asian genetically.

[Dunai]

MyHeritage uses Hazaras as their reference for the Central Asian component (who are mainly of Mongolian descent). I think they should just update it and use Turkmens instead, then Turks would start scoring 50%+ Central Asian. Don't trust 23andme either! The so-called "Anatolian" component there is largely Central Asian! This huge mistake made by 23andme caused Central Asians like Turkmens and Uzbeks to start scoring around 50%~ Anatolian, which isn't true. It's the other way around, which most people don't realize, modern day so-called Anatolian Turks are heavily Central Asian genetically.

Why would 23andMe make such a massive error in basing their Anatolian descriptor on Central Asian people, do you have any real proof for this?

[Zanzibar]

The Central Asian component could be based on Mongolians such as Kalmyks, Buryats and Khalkhas who tend to be around 85 to 90% Mongoloid on average.

[gixajo]

The Central Asian component could be based on Mongolians such as Kalmyks, Buryats and Khalkhas who tend to be around 85 to 90% Mongoloid on average.

And reference from datasheet called "khamnegan"?

[Zoro]

Why would 23andMe make such a massive error in basing their Anatolian descriptor on Central Asian people, do you have any real proof for this?

Proof is Turks and Iranians scoring near 100% W. Asian. 23andme and other commercial companies business model or goal is not to figure out how much east or west asian someone is. Their goal is to make everyone 100% of their own area which they have succeeded at with every 23andme update.

They do this by increasing references for example Turkish references. If the references are 10 or 15% East Asian it’s irrelevant because if you are similar to those Turkish references you’ll simply score 100% reference not 10 or 15% East Asian. They also have an algorithm that zeros out your minor admixture. All this to make you 100% your own ethnicity

[Zanzibar]

And reference from datasheet called "khamnegan"?

Not sure if they also include Khamnegan on the datasheet. They are around 92-93% Mongoloid though.

[Dr_Maul]

And reference from datasheet called "khamnegan"?

They are mongols too

[Dr_Maul]

Why would 23andMe make such a massive error in basing their Anatolian descriptor on Central Asian people, do you have any real proof for this?

Its not based off Central Asians, its based off of Turkish people who are already part Central Asian. This is because it only goes back 500 years and it assumes that the average Turk wouldn't have additional Central Asian by that time period