Orillion
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Eurogenes might be a mere internet blog, the guy behind it happens to know stuff about population genetics, biostatistics and results interpretation. Just because it's a DIY project doesn't mean it has no value.
As its author explains somewhere in said blog, the Ashkenazi population is in itself an admixture of other populations. What K36 is showing you are the populations your Ashkenazi admixture is made of. If you want to get tested by another institution, your only realistic other choice would be FTDNA, whose new MyOrigins tool shows very interesting results, which can then be compared to 23andme's and Gedmatch's (you can upload your 23andme data to FTDNA - for a price - or order a new sample kit if you want to start over from scratch).
You might get apparently contradictory results (i, for one, did), but it's mainly because the reference populations they chose are different to begin with. If you want to get an example of this, do the Jtest and EUtest on Gedmatch: the only difference is that there is an Ashkenazi group in Jtest, everything else is the same: all your percentage which were grouped under Ashkenazi in Jtest will be added to a number of other groups in Eutest, showing which populations their reference Ashkenazi admixture is made of.
I hope this makes things a bit more clear.
As its author explains somewhere in said blog, the Ashkenazi population is in itself an admixture of other populations. What K36 is showing you are the populations your Ashkenazi admixture is made of. If you want to get tested by another institution, your only realistic other choice would be FTDNA, whose new MyOrigins tool shows very interesting results, which can then be compared to 23andme's and Gedmatch's (you can upload your 23andme data to FTDNA - for a price - or order a new sample kit if you want to start over from scratch).
You might get apparently contradictory results (i, for one, did), but it's mainly because the reference populations they chose are different to begin with. If you want to get an example of this, do the Jtest and EUtest on Gedmatch: the only difference is that there is an Ashkenazi group in Jtest, everything else is the same: all your percentage which were grouped under Ashkenazi in Jtest will be added to a number of other groups in Eutest, showing which populations their reference Ashkenazi admixture is made of.
I hope this makes things a bit more clear.
