Diverse Genes

 I participated in AllOfUs Research back in August 2024 to contribute in any way to genomic research with the use of my DNA. Africans have the greatest genetic diversity of all the continental peoples on our planet Earth by far, but people of African ancestry make up a tiny proportion of the participants. The great under-representation of people of African ancestry one of the reasons why I want to help contribute. My other reason is that I want to help with research studies on neurological and neurodevelopmental issues with my having Ataxia, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, ADHD.   My wanting to contribute is the main reason that I did FamilyTreeDNA Big Y-700.  I already knew that I had an African Y DNA haplogroup after doing 23andme test and told that I had E2b1 and then later told E-M85. Only 1 in 1,500 23andme customers share my E-M85 haplogroup group assignment. I did FamilyTreeDNA Big Y-700 Test, and I was assigned Y DNA haplogroup E-BY101982. Only six men are known to have...

 I want to go over the non-Sub Saharan African in my AncestryDNA Ethnicity Estimate.  This is to show why parent-child DNA phasing is essential.  The problems of not phasing becomes obvious if a person has a vast majority of specific continental ancestry that comes from parent that has tested.  I take ethnic analyses with a strong grain of salt and focus mainly on DNA relative matches.  I do think that knowing the continental ancestries are helpful, but I am skeptical of the breakdown of each continental ancestry because of all the mixing that went on in people in the continents throughout history going back to highly ancient times. I am especially skeptical of the European continental breakdown with my longtime reading of the history of the mixing of populations in Europe. After getting and reading 'Ancestry Reimagined: Dismantling the Myth of Genetic Ethnicities' by Kostas Kampourakis,  I even question these ethnicity estimates even more.  Kampouraki...

 This is a review about my NativeDNA results My Genealogical Ancestry I am a multicontinental American that is highly multiethnic, and I am related to many of my fellow Americans in many different ways.   My paternal grandfather's father's ancestry was African American.  He had some European ancestry. My paternal grandfather's mother's ancestry was African American. My paternal grandmother's father's ancestry was African American.  He had some European ancestry.  My paternal grandmother's mother's ancestry was African American with English, Acadian (French in what now known as Nova Scotia), Polish, Swiss, and German.   All of my paternal 3rd great grandparents were African American slaves in Southern Louisiana with the exception of my paternal grandmother's maternal grandfather's father who was a European American son of an English American plantation owner born in Gates County, North Carolinia and a 3/4 Acadian woman born in Assumption Parish in...

  Through looking at my paternal European American AncestryDNA matches in connection to my European segment on my paternal Chromosome 10, I found out that I am a descendant of John Hampton Jr (1683-1747) and Margaret Wade (1694-1773) who were Colonial English Virginians.  John Hampton Jr was the son of John Hampton Sr. and Mary Mann.   In 1712, his father gave him a land tract in New Kent County, Virginia. , He later owned land at Occupacia Creek in Essex County, Virginia. As late as 1736 he and his wife lived in St.Anne's Parish, By 1741, he resided in Prince William County, Virginia. His plantation was on the west side of Pohick Church in Overwhaton Parish. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hampton-1118 John Hampton was the son of  Thomas Hampton and Mary Wade.  He was referred to as Captain and served in Major Lawrence Smith's forces sent by Gov. Berkeley to put down Bacon's Rebellion in 1676.  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hampton-292 Thomas Hampton wa...

  This is my FamilyTreeDNA Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroup Report  for J1c14 My blog post about Haplogroup information https://diversegenes.blogspot.com/2021/08/my-mitochondrial-dna-haplogroup-j1c14.html

  MyHeritage's Ethnicity Estimate updated their ethnic analyses again. My mother's ethnic analysis and my paternal aunt's ethnic analysis were finally updated. During over a decade, I have learned to take ethnic analyses with a strong grain of salt and focus mainly on DNA relative matches. My Genealogical Ancestry I am a multicontinental American that is highly multiethnic, and I am related to many of my fellow Americans in many different ways.   My paternal grandfather's father's ancestry was African American.  He had some European ancestry. My paternal grandfather's mother's ancestry was African American. My paternal grandmother's father's ancestry was African American.  He had some European ancestry.  My paternal grandmother's mother's ancestry was African American with English, Acadian (French in what now known as Nova Scotia), Polish, Swiss, and German.   All four of my paternal great grandparents were born in the Acadiana region in Sout...