anyone get unexpected / surprise results in DNA test?

[Anonymous]

My son took a DNA test showing Maori heritage. My DH was adopted at birth but this is a big surprise

[Anonymous]

Now that is very cool! Is it a significant percentage?

[Anonymous]

I think there are a lot of subtleties that the tests don't discuss when they assign heritage groups. This isn't something I understand well, but I have a family member with some background in DNA analysis who showed me, for one thing, that her own tests results changed dramatically when she ran them through different analysis models.

That said, I understand that a significant percentage of New Zealanders have some Maori ancestry, whether or not they look like they do. I also wonder if some other Polynesian ancestry could be coming up as Maori, and maybe they just had more Maori than Easter Islander in their reference population-- kind of like Middle Easterners get results saying Italian because there are just more Italian samples in the database.

[Anonymous]

I wish women could get info on their father's side. Well, you can, but you need a male relative to do the test, and I don't have one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish women could get info on their father's side. Well, you can, but you need a male relative to do the test, and I don't have one.

Wow. I had no idea this was the case. Thanks PP. Sorry about the male relative. I have a few but I don’t think he would be willing to take one.

[Anonymous]

Black African American surprised to find my results were European and African split right down the middle 50/50. The other shock was for my entire life I’ve heard that we also have Native American ancestry. My DNA proved otherwise.

[Anonymous]

My DH had almost 10% Native American ancestry. No family knowledge or even legend - was a complete surprise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish women could get info on their father's side. Well, you can, but you need a male relative to do the test, and I don't have one.

New tests can show both parentage apparently - OP here - this is my son's one which shows what we already knew about my side of the family and is showing us now also this combined with my DH's side. There's a lot of overlap, we're from the UK and have a lot of Irish / Welsh / Scottish ancestry (70%) and Scandinavian (they invaded Ireland substantially). The Maori percentage was about 8% which isn't huge but is also not trace

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DH had almost 10% Native American ancestry. No family knowledge or even legend - was a complete surprise.

That is very cool

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Black African American surprised to find my results were European and African split right down the middle 50/50. The other shock was for my entire life I’ve heard that we also have Native American ancestry. My DNA proved otherwise.

so you have no known black ancestors? do you know which parents were passing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Black African American surprised to find my results were European and African split right down the middle 50/50. The other shock was for my entire life I’ve heard that we also have Native American ancestry. My DNA proved otherwise.

so you have no known black ancestors? do you know which parents were passing?

Oh sorry I misread! You identify as Black, but have no known white ancestors?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wish women could get info on their father's side. Well, you can, but you need a male relative to do the test, and I don't have one.

New tests can show both parentage apparently - OP here - this is my son's one which shows what we already knew about my side of the family and is showing us now also this combined with my DH's side. There's a lot of overlap, we're from the UK and have a lot of Irish / Welsh / Scottish ancestry (70%) and Scandinavian (they invaded Ireland substantially). The Maori percentage was about 8% which isn't huge but is also not trace

Nope. Women only have X chromosomes. You need the Y to get the haplogroup info on heritage from the father's side.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Black African American surprised to find my results were European and African split right down the middle 50/50. The other shock was for my entire life I’ve heard that we also have Native American ancestry. My DNA proved otherwise.

I’m surprised you find this surprising. Many African Americans have a lot of European ancestry.

Maybe someone along the way said Native American to explain why they looked so white, because they didn’t want to get into the pain of explaining or thinking about their white ancestors raping their black ancestors….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish women could get info on their father's side. Well, you can, but you need a male relative to do the test, and I don't have one.

New tests can show both parentage apparently - OP here - this is my son's one which shows what we already knew about my side of the family and is showing us now also this combined with my DH's side. There's a lot of overlap, we're from the UK and have a lot of Irish / Welsh / Scottish ancestry (70%) and Scandinavian (they invaded Ireland substantially). The Maori percentage was about 8% which isn't huge but is also not trace

Nope. Women only have X chromosomes. You need the Y to get the haplogroup info on heritage from the father's side.

New tests can indeed cover both sides. They didn't for a very long time, but that issue has been overcome. Look it up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish women could get info on their father's side. Well, you can, but you need a male relative to do the test, and I don't have one.

New tests can show both parentage apparently - OP here - this is my son's one which shows what we already knew about my side of the family and is showing us now also this combined with my DH's side. There's a lot of overlap, we're from the UK and have a lot of Irish / Welsh / Scottish ancestry (70%) and Scandinavian (they invaded Ireland substantially). The Maori percentage was about 8% which isn't huge but is also not trace

Nope. Women only have X chromosomes. You need the Y to get the haplogroup info on heritage from the father's side.

New tests can indeed cover both sides. They didn't for a very long time, but that issue has been overcome. Look it up.

"The DNA test offered by MyHeritage is an autosomal DNA test, which analyses the DNA you inherited from your mother and father."