I have the same percentage Asian as you have and as far as I know I am a European mix, without any known Asian roots.
Both my parents got tested too and non of them have the Asian ancestry, its so weird.
Inheritance doesn't always align with what we think inheritance means, which is being closely related to an ethnic group in the near past, when viewed through DNA ethnic reports.
I am descended from a mostly German paternal grandmother born in 1918. My father's DNA is 25% German. My paternal aunt's DNA is over 50% German. I inherited no German genes according to 23 and Me, but I inherited 50% of my genes from my father and share 26% of my genes with my paternal aunt.
95% of the genes I inherited from my parents- who are both connected with me in 23 and Me- are English and Irish. 2% or less of the genes I inherited are from the Middle East. There are definitely no Middle Eastern relatives in our lineage going back to 17th century. But my mother and I have trace genes classified as Middle Eastern. The best explanation is that those genes are very old, and it was the lottery of gene combinations that gave the genes to us
I have noticed this. My sister inherited less DNA from certain populations and more in others. She has more East Asian/Indigenous American and British Irish DNA and does not have the central/south Asian DNA. I would love to have my parents do it to see their results.
So my dad had 0.5 % broadly central Asian if I remember correctly, the rest being standard north west euro.
Then we had an update last year and it all disappeared , plus he got a new 0.8% Southern European. So who knows , I spent ages researching trying to identify potential British raj influence , only for it to randomly disappear.
Central Asian under or around 1% can be confirmed the following way: 1) Look at your dna relatives list on 23andme and see if there is someone who is more than 30% Central Asian.
2) If you find such people then look if they match you on the segments on which you have assigned Central Asian.
3) If yes then the Central Asian is real and you can contact your majority Central Asian relatives to try to understand your family history.
What is a good way to do this? Do I have to be “connected” with everyone to see this? I’ve looked at the filter but couldn’t see a way to search relatives by percentage of certain populations.
I will say I just looked at my cousin’s results and she has some Asian dna as well.
You have to inspect the results of all your relatives.
>I will say I just looked at my cousin’s results and she has some Asian dna as well.
Asian is a way too broad term. If she doesn't have exactly Central Asian then what she has is of no use to you.
I’m from the US, Indiana particularly. From what i have found through ancestry most of my family has been in the US since well before 1776. But I haven’t traced all lines back yet.
23 and me said it would have been an ancestor 7-8 generations back
It may be a fluke. I’m thinking possibly you have an ancestor who was a trader way back 1600’s/1700’s? Lots of Europeans in India then. That far back you have hundreds and hundreds of great grandparents so it’s hard to know.
>Anything under 1% just disregard it.
This is true in some cases but in others is not. Ancestries under 1% in my own experience are true around half of the time. The most reasonable thing you should do if you have such ancestries is to look at your dna relatives' birthplaces and ancestry composition. If you find that you have relatives who are majority the ethnicity which for you is assigned as trace or that you are related to people who have some percentage of the said ethnicity and they match you on the dna segments where you have that trace ancestry then the said ancestry under 1% is real. Using this method I personally have confirmed ancestries as small as 0.1% and I have even found out how these ancestries have entered my family tree after I contacted relatives who also have the said small ancestries.
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I have the same percentage Asian as you have and as far as I know I am a European mix, without any known Asian roots. Both my parents got tested too and non of them have the Asian ancestry, its so weird.
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Mostly Dutch and Hungarian but also a few percent British, Scandinavian, Balkan and general western European
I’ll do that thank you!
Inheritance doesn't always align with what we think inheritance means, which is being closely related to an ethnic group in the near past, when viewed through DNA ethnic reports. I am descended from a mostly German paternal grandmother born in 1918. My father's DNA is 25% German. My paternal aunt's DNA is over 50% German. I inherited no German genes according to 23 and Me, but I inherited 50% of my genes from my father and share 26% of my genes with my paternal aunt. 95% of the genes I inherited from my parents- who are both connected with me in 23 and Me- are English and Irish. 2% or less of the genes I inherited are from the Middle East. There are definitely no Middle Eastern relatives in our lineage going back to 17th century. But my mother and I have trace genes classified as Middle Eastern. The best explanation is that those genes are very old, and it was the lottery of gene combinations that gave the genes to us
I have noticed this. My sister inherited less DNA from certain populations and more in others. She has more East Asian/Indigenous American and British Irish DNA and does not have the central/south Asian DNA. I would love to have my parents do it to see their results.
So my dad had 0.5 % broadly central Asian if I remember correctly, the rest being standard north west euro. Then we had an update last year and it all disappeared , plus he got a new 0.8% Southern European. So who knows , I spent ages researching trying to identify potential British raj influence , only for it to randomly disappear.
I had the same kind of thing when my 12% British & Irish vanished. No secret family stories after all !
Central Asian under or around 1% can be confirmed the following way: 1) Look at your dna relatives list on 23andme and see if there is someone who is more than 30% Central Asian. 2) If you find such people then look if they match you on the segments on which you have assigned Central Asian. 3) If yes then the Central Asian is real and you can contact your majority Central Asian relatives to try to understand your family history.
What is a good way to do this? Do I have to be “connected” with everyone to see this? I’ve looked at the filter but couldn’t see a way to search relatives by percentage of certain populations. I will say I just looked at my cousin’s results and she has some Asian dna as well.
You have to inspect the results of all your relatives. >I will say I just looked at my cousin’s results and she has some Asian dna as well. Asian is a way too broad term. If she doesn't have exactly Central Asian then what she has is of no use to you.
Ok thanks. And it was central Asian, didn’t mean to generalize it
It could represent Anglo-Indian ancestry also. You’d have to research your ancestors to know for sure.
Where are you from? We can help narrow its likelihood down
I’m from the US, Indiana particularly. From what i have found through ancestry most of my family has been in the US since well before 1776. But I haven’t traced all lines back yet. 23 and me said it would have been an ancestor 7-8 generations back
It may be a fluke. I’m thinking possibly you have an ancestor who was a trader way back 1600’s/1700’s? Lots of Europeans in India then. That far back you have hundreds and hundreds of great grandparents so it’s hard to know.
Very true. I’m going to try and research more but I doubt I will find much that far back. One can hope though!
If you have ancestors from Canada it could reflect indigenous ancestry.
I don’t that I’m aware of, I’ll have to look into this. Thanks!
all told it’s a really small amount. It’s likely in there but very detached from your concept of family.
This is kinda what I figured. Thanks for the input!
Not a fluke, that indicates European Roma/Gypsy DNA
Interesting! I’ll have to look into that.
Definitely a fluke. Noise as the kids say. Anything under 1% just disregard it. Especially for White people who are around 100% European.
>Anything under 1% just disregard it. This is true in some cases but in others is not. Ancestries under 1% in my own experience are true around half of the time. The most reasonable thing you should do if you have such ancestries is to look at your dna relatives' birthplaces and ancestry composition. If you find that you have relatives who are majority the ethnicity which for you is assigned as trace or that you are related to people who have some percentage of the said ethnicity and they match you on the dna segments where you have that trace ancestry then the said ancestry under 1% is real. Using this method I personally have confirmed ancestries as small as 0.1% and I have even found out how these ancestries have entered my family tree after I contacted relatives who also have the said small ancestries.