It says I have more Neanderthal in me than 97% of those tested. That explains a lot.
Not a hint of the of the Native American ancestor my father promised me.
why can’t the Neanderthal have been in what is now the US?
Don’t keep us in suspense - how Neanderthal are you?
Don’t forget that not all genes get passed along. Though, of course, a lot of people think they have Native American ancestry and don’t.
Here’s a funny one: as I understand it, my uncle shows no Native American ancestry on ancestry.com test. Yet was able to get membership in the tribe based on his DNA. From the way he described it, (mentioning mothers), this test was may have checked mitochondrial DNA since it was his mother’s mother’s mother (his great grandmother, that he knew as a child) that was Native American. This was well over a decade ago, though, and I can’t swear my memory is accurate.
Little known fact: Neanderthals had the right leg shorter than the left. They couldn’t leave Eurasia because they kept walking in circles.
Perhaps Paul in Qatar can confirm.
It does not say, only that I got more than 97% of other people they have tested. My wife is saying I have a well-developed brow and deep-set eyes.
Elsewise, 96.8% European. Nothing special.
No diseases, I am happy to report.
Which testing service did you use? I am considering this for a Birthday present for SO.
If I spent money, and all the report said was I was 99 percent European, I’d be sooooo pissed off.
When I took the Nat-Geo survey a few years ago, it said that I was something like 1.8% Neanderthal and 0.7% Denisovan. So, at least I am 97.5% h s s – although, one expert opinion has conclusively identified me as a “drooling mongoloid”.
Mine said 99.8% Eastern European Jew, which was what I expected.
How is everyone getting these strange percentages? You’ve got to go back a long, long, time, don’t you? And I don’t suppose that people were really cross cultural in, say, C.E. 1000.
The Nat-Geo survey that I took pRt in had a resolution of something like ten millennia and reached back c. 250K years. It showed my forebears coming out of where Tanzania is, up across the Arabian peninsula, across most of Siberia and then back into Northern Europe. It was more of an ancient history thing.
I got 100% European, surprising since there were so many stories of Native American ancestry. But the most shocking was the .4% Ashkenazi Jew. Where the heck did that come from? I suspect from my Dutch ancestors, because otherwise I’m French/English/Irish/Scottish.
Telemark, I’m about 96% Ashkenazi, 3% East Asian, and very little Neanderthal.
Wine, beer, & whisk(e)y; remind me never to get into a drinking contest with you! 
23 & Me. I think it costs $200 or so. But then they send you a half-price coupon. It came back a month earlier than promised, after two weeks.
I haven’t been tested, but one look in the mirror tells me I got more than my share of 2%. 
You and most other people with that story. NA ancestry is surprisingly absent in white and black Americans (generally speaking).
I am also 100% European. Mostly Dutch, English and Irish with a bit of Scandinavian thrown in. That is what I expected.
That’s what I was fully expecting, but ended up with “only” 93% Eastern European Jew. Trace amounts of Middle Eastern, Finland/Northwest Russia, and a few others along those lines. The only completely unexpected one was Polynesia, but it showed up as <1%, so it may not even be legitimate.
If you want a more complete report, you can then download your genome from 23&Me and run it through Promethease.
I’m only in the 83rd percentile for Neanderthal ancestry, but every time someone on Twitter makes a caveman joke I reply with a GIF of the Geico caveman crossing his arms and getting pissed off 
My mother’s and my sister’s DNA from ancestry doesnt show Neanderthal, my husband has a shorter leg than the other, that explains his Neanderthal ways!! :smack::smack: