Sunday, July 7, 2013

23andMe Voted me off the Native American Island

So, I first got tested with 23 and Me.

I am happy with their service, for all the information I learned from a very talented and informed group of commenters in their community forums.  I still would recommend them, despite the fact that they appeared to make a decision, based on my chatter on aforementioned forums about the possibility of Native ancestry for Joseph Smith.  There could be some other explanation, but since they didn't provide me with one, I'm not going to bother to have them explain themselves.

They originally assigned me a Native American segment on chromosome 17.  The same segment appears on my dad's Doug McDonald painting.  It also appears on my daughter's 23 and Me painting.

So they assigned it to me, and then they took it away, and I have screenshots to prove it.    I do feel I was targeted, since they failed to remove it from my daughter.  It seems pretty silly, because I am asking these questions out of genuine curiosity, motivated by questions brought up from growing up Mormon, and not out of disrespect for anyone.  I know there could be some other explanation, but if the other explanation is about new information found, then they are a bit remiss in their thoroughness.  To wit, my daughter's DNA.

Original painting --







New chromosome painting, no longer showing 0.1% Native American:




It looks like I now have more Scandinavian.....They also seem less certain about my Southern European.  Maybe they were trying to give me credit somehow for what I found out about my dad's 8th chromosome being Finnish.  The problem is, I was talking about the 8th chromosome segment on my dad who was tested with Family Tree DNA, not the segment three generations share on chromosome 17 that has yet to be fully explored.

Oh well.....I don't suppose any of this is "gospel" just yet....that includes all of my speculation and all of theirs.  This was the "speculative" view.





1 comment:

  1. I have the same spot (as do my sibs and kids) in chromosome 17!

    ReplyDelete