That sounds cool. Can they tell you from which European ethnic groups you come from too? How specific are they about this? Do they say French, German, etc...? Or do they say South of France Celtic, Germanic tribe from the North and so on?
Right now the only categories where they give you your percentage and paint your genome accordingly are European, Asian, and African.
The cool thing about 23andme though is that they're always rolling out new stuff. There is a separate, more detailed ancestry break-down in their "labs" (a part of the website for experimental stuff) but it's not very good. Part of the problem is that there isn't enough research pinning down large swaths of the genome to more specific areas. So what 23andme does is use user reported data- which is problematic due to globalization and limited by people's knowledge.
The only other things that are good and can really pin down geography are your mitochondrial DNA, like I mentioned, and the Y chromosome.
Aaaah, not very useful for me then. I live in Europe and doubt that I have any Asian or African ancestry. Maybe some Middle-Eastern or Sephardic Jew but I guess that falls in the same race as Europeans so they won't be able to tell me. $260 was going to be a big investment for me, I will wait until they can tell the difference between early Europe's ethnic groups: Celts, Germanic tribes, Iberians, Basques, "Roman", etc... They need to study people living in Europe in kind of isolated communities, remote mountains or whatever, then they will be able to tell the difference.
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That sounds cool. Can they tell you from which European ethnic groups you come from too? How specific are they about this? Do they say French, German, etc...? Or do they say South of France Celtic, Germanic tribe from the North and so on?
Right now the only categories where they give you your percentage and paint your genome accordingly are European, Asian, and African.
The cool thing about 23andme though is that they're always rolling out new stuff. There is a separate, more detailed ancestry break-down in their "labs" (a part of the website for experimental stuff) but it's not very good. Part of the problem is that there isn't enough research pinning down large swaths of the genome to more specific areas. So what 23andme does is use user reported data- which is problematic due to globalization and limited by people's knowledge.
The only other things that are good and can really pin down geography are your mitochondrial DNA, like I mentioned, and the Y chromosome.
Aaaah, not very useful for me then. I live in Europe and doubt that I have any Asian or African ancestry. Maybe some Middle-Eastern or Sephardic Jew but I guess that falls in the same race as Europeans so they won't be able to tell me. $260 was going to be a big investment for me, I will wait until they can tell the difference between early Europe's ethnic groups: Celts, Germanic tribes, Iberians, Basques, "Roman", etc... They need to study people living in Europe in kind of isolated communities, remote mountains or whatever, then they will be able to tell the difference.
And even then it may be hard. There has been mixing up even back then.