This is some of my K13. There must be no northern Italian or Tuscan samples. On other calculators without those samples I've come out Bulgarian. On Dodecad, old as it is, I come out exactly where my genealogy and geographical location in the Italian cline would indicate: midway between Bergamo and TSI, and with the following populations all located either in Spain or the northern Balkans depending on the calculator.
All calculators are not created equal, and all of them have to be interpreted. That's why a lot of these results are so misinterpreted.
As for the "J test", it's totally bogus, imo, as to what it's supposed to show, which is the amount of "Jewish" ancestry based on Ashkenazi samples. If someone wants to know if they have Ashkenazi ancestry they should test at 23andme. I followed the thread about those results for years, and it was never wrong. Even people who swore they had no Jewish ancestry wound up finding it in records or from family members; even the percentages matched. Dienekes could find it too. He told a major researcher who published his whole genome that instead of being part Italian he was part Ashkenazi.
The "J test" is totally inaccurate, as even the "creator" admitted. I, like most people, show some "Ashkenazi" on it, yet at 23andme I don't have a single match with Ashkenazim. In the face of a lot of results like that he said some nonsense like compare your results to other people from your area, and the excess is Ashkenazi. Really? Is that printed anywhere in the info about the test for the vast majority of people who use it who aren't privy to that?
It should be removed from gedmatch.
Albanian |
4.12 |
2 |
Greek |
4.51 |
3 |
Sicilian |
7.04 |
4 |
Bulgarian |
7.68 |
5 |
Italian_South |
9 |