Originally Posted by
Turul Karom
Certainly. If you take a look at my results, I also score Finno-Ugric Urals. However, across all calculators, my Turkic scores are higher, and I always get Turkic grave results/reference populations. It's clear tribes of Turkic proto-Hungarians would have picked up Ugric language and genetic markers from Siberian-Uralic-Ugric tribes and blended accordingly.
For your friend, it could be how the test reads though. What company or calculator do they score Finnish in? That could make a big difference with the results. Plus, two great grandparents with no other Hungarians in the admixture might be difficult to fully express. Additionally, that is a lot of generations where more genetics could have filtered out. It is possible that, if the test is accurate for Turkic or broadly Central Asian populations, that she didn't inherit any Turkic/C. Asian genetics from her only few Hungarian great-grand ancestor(s) (assuming they had some to give) that were represented in the data-source pool for said calculator. Since a lot of results will depend on how good the source pool is for genetic references and how openly they are shared with the calculator user, I think that could play a major role as well.
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