What's Your Y-DNA Haplogroup?

**Blemoir** · 07-25-2020, 01:34 AM

Originally Posted by Luso

Have you taken any genetic tests? Like ancestrydna or 23andMe, sometimes they can pinpoint.

Only MyHeritage, from the results it's very likely is portuguese.

**~~Luso~~** · 07-25-2020, 01:35 AM

Originally Posted by Blemoir

Only MyHeritage, from the results it's very likely is portuguese.

Yeah, I'd bet on it as Portuguese.

**Blemoir** · 07-25-2020, 01:38 AM

Originally Posted by Luso

Yeah, I'd bet on it as Portuguese.

Yes!

But then again how the haplogroup is R1a and not R1b

**Ethel** · 07-25-2020, 02:57 AM

Originally Posted by Blemoir

Yes I Know, But I did a DNA test. I'm mostly Iberian, SSA and amerindian are residual.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrZz...ature=youtu.be

MyHeritage ethnicity estimate is just the worst in the market. Besides, their raw data is quite good and I know you broke down your DNA with several other calculators, but I'd add the fact that these calculators will show which populations are the closest to you and what combination can (or actually do) make up your background, but they rarely give exact percentages of your ancestry by modern nationalities/ethnicities etc (esp. considering that you're mixed) as 23andme does, for example.
With this in mind, it's important to note that many ethnicities that actually make up your DNA can be so diluted that they become unrecognizable. There was a Brazilian member here with not so distant Dutch ancestors confirmed by papertrail, but that this was undetectable in the calculators/oracles

**chinshen** · 07-25-2020, 03:21 AM

Mine is R1b.

**Blemoir** · 07-25-2020, 03:42 AM

Originally Posted by Ethel

MyHeritage ethnicity estimate is just the worst in the market. Besides, their raw data is quite good and I know you broke down your DNA with several other calculators, but I'd add the fact that these calculators will show which populations are the closest to you and what combination can (or actually do) make up your background, but they rarely give exact percentages of your ancestry by modern nationalities/ethnicities etc (esp. considering that you're mixed) as 23andme does, for example.
With this in mind, it's important to note that many ethnicities that actually make up your DNA can be so diluted that they become unrecognizable. There was a Brazilian member here with not so distant Dutch ancestors confirmed by papertrail, but that this was undetectable in the calculators/oracles

Yes I Know MyHeritage is not perceived as good. Unfortunately 23andme and My Ancestry are not available in Brazil.

Do you know this company https://meudna.com/ ? Do you think is worth it?

**Ethel** · 07-25-2020, 04:08 AM

Originally Posted by Blemoir

Yes I Know MyHeritage is not perceived as good. Unfortunately 23andme and My Ancestry are not available in Brazil.

Do you know this company https://meudna.com/ ? Do you think is worth it?

Never heard of anyone who did it with them, but I know they don't provide raw data. If I were to make a DNA test today, I'd choose Genera, I think it's the best and cheapest one in Brazil today, or even import a DNA test from Family Tree DNA. I read somewhere that Genera has a parnership with FTDNA, don't know if their test is the same, but FTDNA is surely more expensive, especially nowadays (dollar).

Btw, I also tested with MyHeritage. Even though my colonial side is overwhelmingly Portuguese, they gave me 0% Iberian in their report, but gave me lots of Irish/Scottish, North African, Sardinian and Middle Eastern, etc.

**Blemoir** · 07-25-2020, 04:19 AM

Originally Posted by Ethel

Never heard of anyone who did it with them, but I know they don't provide raw data. If I were to make a DNA test today, I'd choose Genera, I think it's the best and cheapest one in Brazil today, or even import a DNA test from Family Tree DNA. I read somewhere that Genera has a parnership with FTDNA, don't know if their test is the same, but FTDNA is surely more expensive, especially nowadays (dollar).

Btw, I also tested with MyHeritage. Even though my colonial side is overwhelmingly Portuguese, they gave me 0% Iberian in their report, but gave me lots of Irish/Scottish, North African, Sardinian and Middle Eastern, etc.

I will take a look at Genera. But in my case I think MyHeritage was alright, they detected my south italian part perfectly for example, as well as iberian. Nothing seems missing and nothing stick out as absurd.