motzart
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- Y-DNA haplogroup
- I2a1a2a1a L233
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- H1c3
I notice that a lot of you on here seem to think that information on ancient genomes from various bloggers using GEDMatch and other open source genetic analysis tools trumps whatever information was actually published in the papers from the researchers who performed the initial analysis. The open source tools are not vetted in the same way that academic research is, nor is it of the same quality. GEDMatch is unreliable from a serious scientific perspective as data in GEDMatch results can be easily faked and manipulated, when I upload my own 23andme results to GEDMatch I could easily go and edit the text file to give myself a bunch of unique SNPs, or copy other openly available data from an ancient genome to make myself appear a 50% match to whatever ancient genome I wanted. The same can be said for all of the "homebrew" admixture calculators floating around.
When there is a discrepancy between results obtained from open source or hobbyist dna tools and official research it is evidence that the open source tools have flaws, not vice versa.
When there is a discrepancy between results obtained from open source or hobbyist dna tools and official research it is evidence that the open source tools have flaws, not vice versa.