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Sadie
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 Posted: Tue 28 Oct 2008 03:46 Post subject: My DNA test results |
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DNAPrint 2.5 results;
80% Indo-European
12% African
8% Native-American
The minor admixtures I think are distant because of yet I haven't found the Native-American or African ancestors. And as for finding the Native-American ancestors, I doubt I'll ever find them since the Taino Indians died out in Puerto Rico long ago. My Euroasian DNA test revealed 33% North European, 28% Middle Eastern, 21% South Asian and 18% Southeastern Europe(Mediterranean). The Middle Eastern seems to coincide with my mtDNA U5 and with my grandfather's y-dna which was E3b2(M-81). I did find out that my Dad's mtDNA was L1b which probably could account for the 12% African. As far as I could find by interviewing an older relative, my paternal great-great grandmother was a dark woman but with straight hair (pelo bueno) as my great-uncle put it.
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fwsweet
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That is pretty close to the Puerto Rican average, as shown below:
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Also, most Puerto Ricans find it impossible to trace any particular ancestry to any particular grandparent, since mixing has been going on in PR for over five centuries. |
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Sadie
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| Posted: Tue 28 Oct 2008 16:04 Post subject: |
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| What exactly is the Puerto Rican average? I know from DNAPrint they said it is like 55% European, 8.8% Native-American and 36% African. Is that the study you're referring to? |
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fwsweet
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| Posted: Wed 29 Oct 2008 01:10 Post subject: |
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| Sadie wrote: | | What exactly is the Puerto Rican average? I know from DNAPrint they said it is like 55% European, 8.8% Native-American and 36% African. Is that the study you're referring to? |
I was just eyeballing the above triangle diagram from DNAPrint Genomics. It looks to me like about 70-15-10 Euro-Afro-NA. |
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MisterLawyer
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| Posted: Thu 20 Nov 2008 11:13 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | I doubt I'll ever find them since the Taino Indians died out in Puerto Rico long ago.[...]I did find out that my Dad's mtDNA was L1b which probably could account for the 12% African. As far as I could find by interviewing an older relative, my paternal great-great grandmother was a dark woman but with straight hair (pelo bueno) as my great-uncle put it.
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Keep in mind as well that at this point, you have 500 years of admixture in Puerto Rico. That L1b could have come to Puerto Rico 500 years ago.
My point is to have the percentage that you do, you don't necessarily have to have a recent African or Native ancestor, you could also have a 400 year long line of ancestors who average the same percentages that you do. |
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William
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| Posted: Sun 23 Nov 2008 20:30 Post subject: |
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| MisterLawyer wrote: | | Quote: | I doubt I'll ever find them since the Taino Indians died out in Puerto Rico long ago.[...]I did find out that my Dad's mtDNA was L1b which probably could account for the 12% African. As far as I could find by interviewing an older relative, my paternal great-great grandmother was a dark woman but with straight hair (pelo bueno) as my great-uncle put it.
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Keep in mind as well that at this point, you have 500 years of admixture in Puerto Rico. That L1b could have come to Puerto Rico 500 years ago.
My point is to have the percentage that you do, you don't necessarily have to have a recent African or Native ancestor, you could also have a 400 year long line of ancestors who average the same percentages that you do. |
Absolutely. There are even strains of L1b that seem to have arisen in Europe, although of course the ancestral markers are African. |
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