My mother wanted me to order her a kit for Holiday, so when I did I ordered one for myself for the heck of it. This was from ancestry dna and not the more known 23andme, and only the ethnic background test. I do not even know if ancestry dna has a deeper genetic test, but 23andme does and charges double. My mother supposedly had two black parents, but she’s lighter than I am so we always assumed she was black mixed with something else.
Side note, I don’t have numbers, but I imagine black people in the US or mixed black people are more interested in this kind of test than the average person.
I knew I had about a quarter asian since my father was half black half korean, and reportedly abandoned on Korea and left on the doorsteps of a monastery. I assume a korean girl got knocked up by some black American service member stationed over there and when the child came she was like, uh oh, can’t bring THIS home to my parents!
Anyway, he was adopted from Seoul and raised in the US.
I had less black than I expected, I was expecting around 60ish percent, only around 46% though. Lots of areas that were linked to the slave trade all jumbled up, probably lots of mixing after people got here.
The biggest surprise, and I was a bit shocked, was the lack of white/euro in me, and in its place… ~ 20% middle eastern.
I had no idea. The ~5% trace levels of Euro anything were from the iberian peninsula (spain) and the southern areas of Italy/greece. But for all I know that could just be from the white concubines/slaves sent during the Islamic conquest of southern Europe. My european slate is essentially empty.
Anyway, I actually found this pretty interesting, and now I know. I might do a 23andme test later on to see what kind of mutations I have and proclivities for genetic diseases.
Any of you take one of these tests?
