Joey37
Regular Member
- Messages
- 465
- Reaction score
- 98
- Points
- 28
- Location
- Coventry, Rhode Island
- Ethnic group
- Celto-Germanic
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- R1a-YP445
- mtDNA haplogroup
- J1c2b
Helix says they do gene sequencing rather than genotyping, so I wasn't surprised to get slightly different results than with 23andMe. The haplogroups were the same; J1C2 for mitochondria and R-CTS11962 for Y chromosome-it's a descendant of my 23andMe clade of R-M417 and an ancestor of my Morley predicted L1029 and WeGene YP445. Much less neanderthal than 23andMe, as well. For 23andMe I got 0% Eastern European while Geno was 25%! I can only suggest that it is because they include some German populations in Eastern Europe with Geno that 23andMe does not. The Sicilian portion of my ancestry made more sense with Geno, as I have 8% West Mediterranean and 2% Italy and Southern Europe, as opposed to the 6% generic Southern European and 3% Balkan at 23andMe. The greater component of my ancestry was 64% Northwestern European, a change from the 88% at 23andMe, which, again, I can attribute to the different classifications of German populations. My first reference population was the Dutch, and the second, Germans.