Russian Gedmatch Results

[Ion Basescul]

Do you recomand 23andme or Myheritage to make a test?

If this is the first test for your family then 23andme, because you will also get your yDNA and mtDNA assignments. MyHeritage has a slightly better resolution for autosomal DNA than 23andme v5, but at the end of the day they are not that different here. Once you have yDNA and mtDNA, you can upload your 23andme data to MyHeritage and test the rest of your family with MyHeritage, as it's cheaper, faster and has a larger database of DNA matches.

[Aspirin]

If this is the first test for your family then 23andme, because you will also get your yDNA and mtDNA assignments. MyHeritage has a slightly better resolution for autosomal DNA than 23andme v5, but at the end of the day they are not that different here. Once you have yDNA and mtDNA, you can upload your 23andme data to MyHeritage and test the rest of your family with MyHeritage, as it's cheaper, faster and has a larger database of DNA matches.

Thanks.

[Cumansky]

This is a post on a public forum and not a private message. Maybe not everyone is as well read as you, so they will learn something new.

When did Roma arrive to Wallachia? Was multiple waves migration?

[itilvolga]

@itilvolga, change the title to 'Transnistrian', would be more accurate. It's not even part of Russia.

I know the owner of these results. He is Russian and I am sure his genetic results will not change it..

[itilvolga]

High South Asian, this is not the first person with such ancestry who have such high amount of South Asian.

His home province is Bender. Do gypsies live there?

[Aspirin]

His home province is Bender. Do gypsies live there?

Gypsies live everywhere, most of them are concentrated in some specific regions of the country. About Transnistria, including Bender, I don't know, I was only two times in my life in that region. The problem is what people who score such high South Asian are Russian/Ukrainian admixed for some reason because score very high Baltic, for Russians is a norm to score high South Asian, but for Northern Russians, not southerners.

[Nurzat]

His home province is Bender. Do gypsies live there?

I don't think he has Gypsy ancestry - by the high score of Caucasus he may be of southern Russian origin and via Caucasus he could get some background South Asian that's ancestral to the population, not recent mix, dunno. anyway, his family may be mixed with local Moldovans, though they probably stayed ethnically Russian with language and all.

still getting very high distance, it's obvious he's mixed, I could lower the distance with such a model (and maybe the Gujarati are not the best proxy for his Asian mix):


Target: Transnistria_guy
Distance: 4.4958% / 4.49577291
76.2 Southwest_Russian
12.6 Gypsy
9.0 Abhkasian
2.2 Romanian_South_Central_Moldova

Target: Transnistria_guy
Distance: 4.4000% / 4.40001095
60.2 Southwest_Russian
27.0 Moldavian
8.4 Abhkasian
4.4 Gujarati

Target: Transnistria_guy
Distance: 4.7762% / 4.77623116
73.8 Southwest_Russian
12.2 Romanian
9.2 Abhkasian
4.8 Gujarati

Target: Transnistria_guy
Distance: 5.1327% / 5.13266411
61.2 Southwest_Russian
26.8 Moldavian
9.4 Abhkasian
2.6 Turkmen

Target: Transnistria_guy
Distance: 5.7090% / 5.70899217
59.0 Southwest_Russian
23.8 Moldavian
17.2 Gypsy

Target: Transnistria_guy
Distance: 5.8915% / 5.89153498
69.4 Southwest_Russian
19.4 Gypsy
11.2 Romanian_South_Central_Moldova

[itilvolga]

I don't think he has Gypsy ancestry - by the high score of Caucasus he may be of southern Russian origin and via Caucasus he could get some background South Asian that's ancestral to the population, not recent mix, dunno. anyway, his family may be mixed with local Moldovans, though they probably stayed ethnically Russian with language and all.

still getting very high distance, it's obvious he's mixed, I could lower the distance with such a model (and maybe the Gujarati are not the best proxy for his Asian mix):


Target: Transnistria_guy
Distance: 4.4958% / 4.49577291
76.2 Southwest_Russian
12.6 Gypsy
9.0 Abhkasian
2.2 Romanian_South_Central_Moldova

Target: Transnistria_guy
Distance: 4.4000% / 4.40001095
60.2 Southwest_Russian
27.0 Moldavian
8.4 Abhkasian
4.4 Gujarati

Target: Transnistria_guy
Distance: 4.7762% / 4.77623116
73.8 Southwest_Russian
12.2 Romanian
9.2 Abhkasian
4.8 Gujarati

Target: Transnistria_guy
Distance: 5.1327% / 5.13266411
61.2 Southwest_Russian
26.8 Moldavian
9.4 Abhkasian
2.6 Turkmen

Target: Transnistria_guy
Distance: 5.7090% / 5.70899217
59.0 Southwest_Russian
23.8 Moldavian
17.2 Gypsy

Target: Transnistria_guy
Distance: 5.8915% / 5.89153498
69.4 Southwest_Russian
19.4 Gypsy
11.2 Romanian_South_Central_Moldova

Thanks for your time

[WeirdLookingFellow]

Guy looks mixed with some possible Tajik/Azeri immigrant based on his high West Asian and South Asian. But it may also be Romani as they have these two main components, I honestly don't think there's any way of truly knowing.

Also Aspirin said well that I have some lower Baltic but higher NA, I'm very curious to take a 23andme as well to see if there is any re-arrangement of these components.

[Nurzat]

Guy looks mixed with some possible Tajik/Azeri immigrant based on his high West Asian and South Asian. But it may also be Romani as they have these two main components, I honestly don't think there's any way of truly knowing.

Also Aspirin said well that I have some lower Baltic but higher NA, I'm very curious to take a 23andme as well to see if there is any re-arrangement of these components.

you should model yourself on Global25 with Moldavian - from what I've seen until now, Moldovans in Romania are closest to that. Romanian in G25 is based on Apuseni I think, from what Vania Basascu said.

try:
Moldavian + Hungarian
Moldavian + Ukrainian
Moldavian + Hungarian + Ukrainian
Moldavian + Slovak
Moldavian + Hungarian + Slovak


why? because in your county there is a native Hungarian-speaking population and the Ukrainians in the region are a bit western-shifted (towards Slovaks, though not there). in medieval times at some point there was a population move from Pokuttia to central Moldova (Roman-Bacau area), many "Polish" villages created but they were "Russian" most certainly (i.e. today's West Ukrainians in Galicia). so you could dig for deep "Hungarian" and "Ukrainian" genes (see the quotation marks)