"Ethnicity estimates of synthetic idividuals" How about the real ones? I know my ethnicity report on Ancestry has greatly changed as they tweek, and add more regions. But I find a huge difference between testing companies as they have their own ethnic test regions and region naming conventions.
yes, they all started with the human genome diversity project, but then each used subsequent projects and their own methodology for iteration and inclusion/exclusion on outliers.
The only thing Ancestry’s Ethnicity represents is probable geographic origins of certain mutations. Ethnicity is a purely political construct used to describe cultural/religious/linguistic and pigmentation aspects of various populations
You comments are quite accurate! It’s geo political and changes over time! Example the area now Germany, Ottoman Empire, Prussia, and many others over the “known” centuries
Great video. I can't find the table with the probabilities, though. It's not on the link you provided. Maybe they took it down? If so, could you upload the original pdf with the table and provide us with a link, please? As a Portuguese, that's kind of important to me, as I know they are misrepresenting us, and this is actually proof.
+Karen Smith Looks as if i posted the incorrect white paper link ! At the 15:13 in video it shows Portugal as .44 (44 of 100 times it predicts the correct ethnicity/56 of 100 not) 86% accuracy in the amount of that ethnicity Hope that helps
@@DNAFamilyTrees Ok, thank you for correcting the link :) I would find it weird if they actually took it down, as that would seriously look like some kind of elaborated conspiracy lol But my suspicions that we are being misrepresented proved to be true.
I was definitely annoyed when they tweeked the ethnicities because ethnicities that matched my documentation and other DNA tests that I had done suddenly went away. I do wish we had had the option of keeping it as it was.
Thank you for your information. I agree DNA is just an estimate. I know most of my DNA is German/French and ancestry listed me as mainly Northern European(Northern European I can accept). I do expect to see some NA to show up later in updated DNA testing due to confirmed NA on my mom's and dad's side thru documents and Trulines; although it starts with the 3rd ggrandparent. The main circle was around Brittan, France, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium. It could not give me an exact amount of what I was in these regions but mainly told me where most of my DNA is from. 10% Scots-Irish also. Some DNA from Norway and Finland.
mmm Ancestry didnt do mine correctly...I passed my DNA results from Ancestry to another person and it came up with my aboriginal or Melanesian dna and yet Ancestry just didnt show it up... I just use the site to meet other cousins now... I wouldnt recommend their DNA tests to anyone...
+me heretoday the autosomal is good The test is not scientifically accurate ( as pointed out by their own paper). Gets better over time but some ethnicity has a long way to go
genealogy not sure about that, but for ethinicity, yeah they really miss the mark. I cut 14 minutes out of video were i specfically touched on Spain and Iberian penisula. There is a very unique history for the region that significantly impacts ethnic predictability for the region.
Um, is there a SCIENTIFIC basis for ethnicity? ...and who would be stupid enough to get a degree in it? Yeah, I want to get a doctorate in ethnicity studies...so that I can spend the rest of my career being a barista ...expropriating Ethiopian culture in a vein effort to pay off my college debt!
