I posted my genetic ancestry results. Now, we’ve got my parents, my sister and my wife tested with 23andme. So I thought a comparison would be interesting.
Here’s the ancestry painting from 23andme which uses three reference populations: Yoruba from Nigeria, Chinese and Japanese, and Utahns of Northwestern European descent.
| Dad | Mom | Sister | Me | Wife | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| African | 0.56% | 0.95% | 0.96% | 0.34% | 0.00% |
| Asian | 8.68% | 6.63% | 8.00% | 6.58% | 10.18% |
| European | 90.76% | 92.42% | 91.04% | 93.09% | 89.82% |
You can basically use my wife as a sort of reference for Punjabi ancestry here (which is 3/4th of our ancestry too). Also, my wife and I are unrelated.
As you can see, while our results are close, my mom and sister have more African and I have the least.
And here are the similarity numbers for us with different reference populations.
| Dad | Mom | Sister | Me | Wife | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central & South Asians | 67.13 | 67.09 | 67.05 | 67.12 | 67.12 |
| Northern Europeans | 66.97 | 66.92 | 66.92 | 66.91 | 66.94 |
| Southern Europeans | 66.97 | 66.88 | 66.92 | 66.90 | 66.85 |
| Near Easterners | 66.85 | 66.76 | 66.81 | 66.79 | 66.72 |
| Siberians | 66.59 | 66.50 | 66.48 | 66.52 | 66.77 |
| Eastern Asians | 66.52 | 66.41 | 66.42 | 66.45 | 66.70 |
| North Americans | 66.48 | 66.40 | 66.38 | 66.44 | 66.69 |
| South Americans | 66.46 | 66.37 | 66.40 | 66.40 | 66.76 |
| Oceanians | 66.39 | 66.41 | 66.39 | 66.35 | 66.62 |
| Northern Africans | 66.17 | 66.10 | 66.15 | 66.13 | 65.94 |
| Eastern Africans | 64.08 | 64.06 | 64.11 | 64.10 | 63.89 |
| Southern Africans | 63.96 | 64.00 | 64.06 | 64.00 | 63.77 |
| Central Africans | 63.93 | 63.93 | 64.00 | 63.97 | 63.74 |
| Western Africans | 63.91 | 63.91 | 63.97 | 63.94 | 63.70 |
As compared to my wife, we are closer to Africans and farther from Eastern Asians, Native Americans (who are really a branch of East Asians) and Oceanians.That’s expected because of the 25% Egyptian ancestry we have.
Finally, here are our Dodecad Project results.
| Dad | Mom | Sister | Me | Wife | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East_European | 4.96% | 5.71% | 4.59% | 4.19% | 6.28% |
| West_European | 7.43% | 9.59% | 8.98% | 8.97% | 11.10% |
| Mediterranean | 11.10% | 9.28% | 10.99% | 9.24% | 5.77% |
| Neo_African | 1.36% | 1.12% | 1.45% | 1.15% | 0.26% |
| West_Asian | 23.86% | 22.41% | 22.88% | 23.88% | 19.81% |
| South_Asian | 33.94% | 37.24% | 33.15% | 36.57% | 45.64% |
| Northeast_Asian | 2.53% | 1.64% | 1.79% | 1.95% | 3.22% |
| Southeast_Asian | 3.04% | 2.85% | 3.95% | 2.61% | 3.35% |
| East_African | 1.86% | 2.18% | 3.06% | 2.30% | 0.00% |
| Southwest_Asian | 7.49% | 5.57% | 5.75% | 6.57% | 4.56% |
| Northwest_African | 1.90% | 1.49% | 2.32% | 1.57% | 0.00% |
| Palaeo_African | 0.53% | 0.92% | 1.10% | 1.01% | 0.00% |
Similar results but interesting differences.
