A bit of a warning here. When analyzing the genome of a person like me, it helps to realize that this is not the genetic analysis of a single person but the combination of everyone I’m related to for several hundred years. Everyone..even the ones I don’t know about.
23 and me provides some of this. My Y is R1b-U106 which we’ve discussed at length here. My MTDNA (super ancient all-mother stuff) is T2a. Wide spread in the old world but not very prolific. It appears to offer some protection against alzheimer’s but comes with a downgrade in fertility.
They also provide some broad generalizations. Like the major category of your ancestry:
Northern European. Okay that’s probably what anyone could expect.
They also have an Ancestry finder, which is based on the responses of other people to a general ancestry survey. These results represent the people who are related to me who have all four grandparents from the same country. I made the amount of DNA necessary smaller to get the most results.
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[1,] “CEU” “5.3498”
[2,] “N._European” “6.8162”
[3,] “Argyll_1KG” “7.5783”
[4,] “Orcadian” “7.7582”
[5,] “Orkney_1KG” “8.1615”
[6,] “German_D” “8.3337”
[7,] “French” “11.0648”
[8,] “French_D” “11.1261”
[9,] “Mixed_Germanic_D” “13.625”
[10,] “Slovenian” “14.5148”
[11,] “Dutch_D” “14.8358”
[12,] “Kent_1KG” “17.2383”
[13,] “Hungarians” “19.0526”
[14,] “British_Isles_D” “19.3073”
[15,] “British_D” “19.3129”
[16,] “Cornwall_1KG” “19.968”
[17,] “Swedish_D” “22.1075”
[18,] “Irish_D” “22.6407”
[19,] “Norwegian_D” “23.3146”
[20,] “French_Basque” “23.3369”
[21,] “Portuguese_D” “23.5818”
[22,] “N_Italian_D” “24.7998”
[23,] “Spaniards” “24.8212”
[24,] “Tuscan_H” “25.3811”
[25,] “TSI” “25.5292”
[26,] “Tuscan_X” “25.6874”
[27,] “IBS” “25.9553”
[28,] “Spanish_D” “25.9719”
[29,] “FIN” “28.684”
[30,] “North_Italian” “29.1846”
Forgot my DIY Dodecad mixture:
East_European 11.65%
West_European 49.02%
Mediterranean 26.88%
Neo_African 0.24%
West_Asian 8.59%
South_Asian 1.23%
Northeast_Asian 0.58%
Southeast_Asian 0.01%
East_African 0.00%
Southwest_Asian 1.40%
Northwest_African 0.40%
Palaeo_African 0.00%
Looking at those Dodecad Oracle Results again it seems odd to me how Argyll and Orcadians can be so high on the list and British and Irish are so much lower. My DNA is more like a Slovenian than it is like "Irish". Are people from Argyll that different from the rest of Britain and that different from the Irish?