My Genetic Ancestry with Haplogroups Report from Sequencing

 

This is a blog post review of my Genetic Ancestry with Haplogroups Report from the company Sequencing.  I did the company's whole genome test.

My Genealogical Ancestry

I am related to many of my fellow Americans in many different ways.

I am a 4th generation Californian on my mother's side, and my father was a 7th generation Southern Louisianan.

paternal grandfather's father: African American born in Lafourche Parish (an Acadiana parish) in Southern Louisiana and had some European ancestry 

other roots in District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina

Y DNA haplogroup E-BY101982 (a E2b1 haplogroup)

paternal grandfather's mother: African American born in Lafourche Parish (an Acadiana parish) in Southern Louisiana

other roots in Missouri, Virginia, Georgia

paternal grandmother's father: African American born in Assumption Parish (an Acadiana parish) in  Southern Louisiana and had some European ancestry

other roots in Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, and Kentucky

paternal grandmother's mother: African American with English and Acadian (French in what now known as Nova Scotia), Polish born in St Mary Parish (an Acadiana parish) in Southern Louisiana

colonial roots in Acadiana parishes in Southern Louisiana, Virginia, South Carolina, and North Carolina

Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup L3e1

maternal grandfather's father: American born in California and son of immigrants from Cape Verde (Portuguese and Sub-Saharan African)

maternal grandfather's mother: American born in California with a father from Puerto Rico (Spanish, Sub-Saharan African, and Taino) and a mother that was a Hawaiian daughter of immigrants from Madeira (Portuguese with Sub Saharan African)

Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup L0a2a2

maternal grandmother's father: European American born in Oregon of mainly English ancestry with German, Swiss, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Dutch, and Frisian

colonial roots in Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island

other roots in Missouri, Kansas, Alabama, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Indiana

Y DNA haplogroup J-Z37545 (a J2a4h haplogroup)

maternal grandmother's mother: Ashkenazi Jewish American born in Nebraska with a father born in Romania and a mother born in Courland (in what is now known as Latvia) in Russian Empire

Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup J1c14

Because of the Transatlantic Slave trade, I know very little about my African ancestry. Africa has over 3,000 ethnic groups, and that includes Nigeria having over 400 ethnic groups.  African ancestry is highly likely to consist of many African ethnic groups.  I have some Indigenous American segments on my paternal chromosomes and not just my maternal chromosomes and X Chromosome. My paternal DNA relative matches show some Swiss and German ancestry on my paternal grandmother's side. They also show some Danish, Irish, and Malagasy ancestry.

My highly mixed, diverse ancestry is reflected in my DNA relative matches at AncestryDNA, 23andme, FamilyTreeDNA, MyHeritage, and GEDmatch.

My Genealogical Family Lines

https://diversegenes.blogspot.com/2020/12/my-genealogical-family-lines.html

Pictures of my ancestors with ancestral surnames

https://diversegenes.blogspot.com/2023/04/pictures-of-my-ancestors-with-ancestral.html

Result ID for Genetic Ancestry with Haplogroups Report is 15574921

I was assigned 53% West Sub-Saharan African which is a reasonable amount, and it is the same amount that I was assigned by AncestryDNA.  I was assigned half Sub-Saharan African by 23andme, MyHeritage, and FamilyTreeDNA.  I have no clue about my Sub-Saharan African ancestry, but I am sure that I have ancestry from Senegal in connection to my Cape Verdean ancestry on my maternal grandfather's father's side.  Cape Verde is located near Senegal. I was assigned no Senegalese though.

The only European that I was assigned that was accurate was Portuguese/Spanish. I was assigned nearly a quarter.  I believe that it was overestimated.  My maternal grandfather was of Portuguese/Spanish ancestry, but he also had Sub-Saharan African and Taino ancestry.

I should have been assigned some Ashkenazi Jewish, British/Irish, and French/German. I wasn't assigned any of that.  I was assigned some Broadly Northwestern European, but I was assigned only 2% which is no way near enough to fit the ancestry of my maternal grandmother's father and my father. 

I was assigned nearly a quarter Balkan/Greek even though I have no known Balkan/Greek ancestors.  Much of it seems to be my Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry being mistaken for Balkan ancestry. Ashkenazi Jews are genetically similar to Sephardic Jews, Sicilians, Southern Italians, Italian Jews, Greek Jews, and North African Jews. I am open to the possibility of having a tiny bit of Balkan because my Ashkenazi Jewish great grandmother's father was born in Romania. 

I know that I have Malagasy ancestry on my paternal grandmother's mother's side, but I didn't think that I would be assigned 1% Broadly Southeast Asian/Chinese. I thought it would be less than half that amount. 23andme has me as being 0.3% Chinese/Southeast Asian.

I don't know about the 1% Central/South Asian.  I am open to having some but less than half that amount.

My being assigned 2% Native American seems about right.  23andme has me as being 1.7% Indigenous American (1.0% maternal, 0.7% paternal).  AncestryDNA has me as being 1% Indigenous Puerto Rican and 1% Indigenous Native American - Ecuador. 

I was assigned Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup J1c4b which is wrong.  I have a J1c Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup, but it is J1c14.   23andme has my assigned Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup as J1c. 

I did FamilyTreeDNA's full Mitochondrial DNA test, and I was assigned J1c14.  It was a confirmation that I already knew from getting the same results when I used James Lick's Mitochondrial DNA analysis tool a few years before I did the full Mitochondrial DNA test. 

My Mitochondrial DNA relative matches are Ashkenazi Jews.  

J1c14 is among the list of Ashkenazi maternal lineages.  It's a very minor one. 

https://diversegenes.blogspot.com/2021/08/my-mitochondrial-dna-haplogroup-j1c14.html

I was assigned Y DNA haplogroup E2b1a1.  It seems close.  It includes CTS4257 which is one of my Y Chromosome variants that is included in my FamilyTreeDNA Big Y-700 (700 markers tested) data which led to me being assigned E-BY101982 which is a Y DNA haplogroup that is a descendant of E-M85 Y DNA haplogroup which is my assigned Y DNA haplogroup at 23andme.  The report doesn't include Y Chromosome variant BY101982 though.

https://diversegenes.blogspot.com/2022/01/my-y-dna-haplogroup-e-by71723.html

https://diversegenes.blogspot.com/2023/02/my-familytreedna-ydna-haplogroup-report.html

African Ancestry Patriclan results assigned me Akan in Ghana as my paternal ancestry based on testing only 8 markers, but my Y DNA haplogroup seems to be East African and not West African. Familytree Globetrekker points to E-CTS4257 having originated in South Sudan which is located in East Africa. 

https://diversegenes.blogspot.com/2021/11/african-ancestry-patriclan-test.html

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My conclusion is that this ancestral report is quite inaccurate. I wouldn't recommend this report.  I was especially concerned that I was assigned the wrong Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup.  The Y DNA data is missing variants. It doesn't show BY101982 variant.  The Y Chromosome variants and Mitochondrial DNA variants are important. They can factor into diseases.  It makes me wonder how much data is missing from my X Chromosome. 

AncestryDNA is the only one that acknowledges that my non-African ancestry is a mix of Iberian (Portuguese, Spanish), Jewish, English, French, and Indigenous American.

It doesn't acknowledge my maternal grandmother's father's German, Swiss, Dutch, Frisian which would be in AncestryDNA's Germanic Europe category. It also doesn't acknowledge the Scottish and Irish ancestry on my maternal grandmother's father's side.

23andme gave me only  0.1% British & Irish 

MyHeritage gave me no Jewish, no British, no Irish, no Germanic, no French

MyFamilyTreeDNA gave me no Iberian, no Jewish, no British, no French, no Germanic, no Indigenous American

LivingDNA gave me no Jewish, no British, no French, no Germanic, no Indigenous American

Sequencing Gene2me gave me no British, no Irish, no French, no Germanic

DNAland gave me only 1.1% Ashkenazi/Levantine

I have learned to take ethnic analyses with a strong grain of salt, and I focus mainly on my DNA relative matches.  

https://diversegenes.blogspot.com/2021/09/my-ethnic-analyses-ancestrydna-23andme.html