So I am all new to this ancestral DNA analysis. Any help which would help me understand my ancestry would be very much appreciated.
I got my results back from LivingDNA last week;
I was born and raised in Turkey, so I was expecting quite a mixture but I am not sure how to interpret the results. Whether this is a pretty usual mix. Sub-regional detail for Near East hasn’t showing much detail yet. I don’t know any further than where my grandparents were born and one of them was born in Damascus and rest inside current Turkish borders which is not much to go by when you think 10 generations this test could show.
Anyway here is my autosomal results;
Near East 79.2%
- Armenia & Cyprus 27.2%
- North Turkey 24.8%
- Levant 23.3%
- Arabia 3.9%
Europe 18%
- Tuscany 11.9%
- Aegean 4.3% (Calabria, Greece & Greek islands)
- Baltic 1.8%
Asia 2.8%
- Balochistan 2.8%
confusing part is when I look at my MtDNA (HV2a1);
Yemen 44%
Saudi Arabia 20%
Iraq 19%
Ethiopia %14
Calabria 10%
Syria 10%
Kurdish 9%
Daghestan 9%
Iran 8%
Armenia 8%
Pakistan 7%
Turkey 6%
Sicily 5%
Sardinia 5%
Tuscany 5%
Italy 4%
Bulgaria 4%
…
So would it be wrong to think my father’s side where I pick all the North Turkey, Armenia, Cyprus, and some Aegean or South Mediterranean ( Greek islands and Southern Italy )
But Levant might be coming from mostly my mother’s side? Although Arabia percentage is so small in my autosomal it was surprising to see so high at MtDNA. Why that might be ?
Many thanks,
I got my results back from LivingDNA last week;
I was born and raised in Turkey, so I was expecting quite a mixture but I am not sure how to interpret the results. Whether this is a pretty usual mix. Sub-regional detail for Near East hasn’t showing much detail yet. I don’t know any further than where my grandparents were born and one of them was born in Damascus and rest inside current Turkish borders which is not much to go by when you think 10 generations this test could show.
Anyway here is my autosomal results;
Near East 79.2%
- Armenia & Cyprus 27.2%
- North Turkey 24.8%
- Levant 23.3%
- Arabia 3.9%
Europe 18%
- Tuscany 11.9%
- Aegean 4.3% (Calabria, Greece & Greek islands)
- Baltic 1.8%
Asia 2.8%
- Balochistan 2.8%
confusing part is when I look at my MtDNA (HV2a1);
Yemen 44%
Saudi Arabia 20%
Iraq 19%
Ethiopia %14
Calabria 10%
Syria 10%
Kurdish 9%
Daghestan 9%
Iran 8%
Armenia 8%
Pakistan 7%
Turkey 6%
Sicily 5%
Sardinia 5%
Tuscany 5%
Italy 4%
Bulgaria 4%
…
So would it be wrong to think my father’s side where I pick all the North Turkey, Armenia, Cyprus, and some Aegean or South Mediterranean ( Greek islands and Southern Italy )
But Levant might be coming from mostly my mother’s side? Although Arabia percentage is so small in my autosomal it was surprising to see so high at MtDNA. Why that might be ?
Many thanks,
