Yeah, because Cuban is not an ethnicity it's a nationality. So it would never show up on a DNA result. Some Cubans are blonde haired blue-eyed of European extraction and others are completely of African extraction, furthermore some our middle Eastern
I’ve got no doubt they are having to deal with smart arses sending in random DNA, huge price tag or not. They would probably have a suitably wisecracking report all ready to send back. If not, they should.
Brittany can I just say VasseurBeauty is still incredible fitting - your channel is indeed all about beauty - inspiring people to make their life more beautiful in every area, not only all outside areas (physical/material things) and making things simpler to have more time for the beauty in life but also your family, the people and the way you interact with each other is so precious and beautiful, it is very inspiring to watch. YOU are beautiful inside and out and this is what you carry out into the world, I love the name still, I‘m glad you didn’t change it! 😘 Much love from Cologne, Germany ♥️
Vio Lectra this comment is so positive and BEAUTIFUL, honestly. Probably one of the sweetest comments I’ve seen in a while in the TH-cam comments section. And I 100% agree that her channel is about different kinds of beauty
I'm adopted & did a test to learn about my DNA heritage, & also learned the identity of my birth father's family. That was shocking as I never expected the database to be large enough to find family members. Fortunately in my case it was a happy ending ..
Her North African percentage is also part of the Cuban ancestry. Most DNA services have difficulty discerning between Iberia and North Africa, which makes complete sense historically.
@@spacejaime Correct. I'm not confused about this. Her 23andMe result says she has North African influence, which is typical for Iberians due to the close geographic and historical ties. I don't think we disagree on this?
I thought I should bring up the Neanderthal DNA, since you seem so shocked by it. Your Iberian DNA is the source of your Neanderthal DNA. 23andMe talks about this as well. Other proto-humans existed around the same time, including denisova hominin (aka, Denisovans) in Asia, so most people with South Asian DNA have "higher than average" Denisovan DNA. People from the Iberian peninsula are Spanish & Portuguese, but the Neanderthals that merged into that gene pool had a similar MC1R gene variant as Irish and Scottish people, giving them red hair and freckles. However, it's a slightly different gene variant of the same gene, and no modern humans with red hair got it from Neanderthals. However, because of Natural Selection, geneticists think that the gene mutation developed independently in two different parts of the world for the same reason. Though popular culture often portrays Neanderthals as primitive and stupid, they actually had bigger brains than homo sapiens. They also are one of the few great-ape descended proto-humans that had hyoid bones developed properly to give them the ability of speech, just like homo sapiens. They were also more muscular. It's also probably valid to bring up that your Cuban heritage can be tied to your Iberian DNA, since Cuba was a Spanish colony starting in the 16th Century. Most Latino people have Spanish DNA because of the history of conquest.
Wow!! An amazing answer to an amazing video. . I want to do a DNA test but I want to know more first. I want to know which company to chose. I'll still wait a while to see if it's revealed a scam. I hope it isn't. That would be so sad. You could make a fortune with your knowledge. ...I'd love you to explain my results if I ever do it. All the best 🌸
Carlos, yes this is true. Homo neanderthalensis only existed in Europe (mostly around the Iberian peninsula), so people who have no European ancestors (like Asian people that are not East-Asian, and people who are from Africa originally and never left and never had European ancestors in their line) will have 0% Neanderthal DNA. However, the average European has ~2% DNA, whereas people from the Iberian region (like Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, etc.) will have higher percentage.
I disagree. The Neanderthal DNA is definitely southern Italy. The original population of much of Italy were the Etruscans, and as DNA anaysis has shown, the Etruscans had a very strong admixture of Neanderthal DNA.
Cubans ancestry is pretty much the Iberian peninsula. I'm Cuban and I don't know any Cubans who are native americans. Most of them are Europeans or African-Cubans. The Iberian peninsula part would show your Cuban ancestry and not the native American part.
I'm 100% Portuguese and many of my DNA matches are from Cuba. Meaning, all 4 of their grandparents are pure Cuban. Portuguese and Spanish DNA is closely related, so not surprised.
Iberian Peninsula definitely matches your Cuban side given that it was Spanish territory. :) I’m Cuban-American and my ancestors trace back to Spaniards as well. So interesting! I just might bite the bullet and finally get mine done. Thank you for this video. 💛
80% of British DNA is IBERIAN from the original Iberan population that immigrated to Brittany about 12000 years ago from the Iberian Peninsula. The Celtic immigration (3500 years ago) and the Anglo-Saxon immigration (1500 years ago), although that had profound influences on culture and language, did not influence the basic British DNA strain.
The Basques are the only remnants of the Iberians in Western Europe. Except for the Basques, the Iberians were totally eliminated or assimilated by the Indo-Europeans. The Basques probably survived because they were located in the Pyrenees Mountains. Note that there are some geographical names left: the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal), and the area of Iberia in the Caucasus.
@@rhdkabardian I'm not sure that is true: Neolithic farmers (from France) re-colonised Britain about 1000BC! So the British are as much that as anything!
tattogirl89hc Americans don’t know geography very well. She said her Native American would be her Cuban side but it would be Iberian peninsula part actually.
Panzer Tank I did not say that, I was talking specifically about Cuba not of the entirety of South America. Most Cubans originated from the Iberian peninsula (ie Spain and Portugal). The Native American population was largely wiped out.
AdaylnTheLifeOf why did you say South America as a term for the entirety of Latin America? It bothers me so much when people say that like they forget about the other regions in the American Continent.
You understand Cuba was largely populated by Spanish and European immigrants after the natives died out from disease and war right? It shouldn’t be that shocking that you’re 10% Iberian.
Ancestry always puts the AncestryDNA test kits on sale around all holidays. Shipping & handling is around $15-16. You can get the kits as low as $59. I did the 23andme test years ago and then the Ancestry one a couple of years ago. My results were similar. We forget that people traveled and moved to other countries, even back then. I'm adopted and mixed, so I was happy it showed by genetic backgrounds. It's pretty cool! Plus, I located two sisters on my biological father's side. I'm the family genealogist for both my adopted and biological families. Take the health reports cautiously, as they originally were told by the FDA they couldn't offer them anymore because there was no empirical data. For example, I have a 24% greater risk of developing macular degeneration. After speaking with my retina specialist, he told me based on my history and condition I did not have the greater risk.
I've seen that you were little bit confused regarding your Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry, so I'll try to explain it as best as I can. Both of the results were kind of right. The thing is that while migrating from Israel, they passed through Anatolia (Turkey), Balkans, Eastern Europe and Germany. Some of them stayed in those places and some of them continued migrating and searching for better life conditions. So if you sum up the percentages from Balkans, Eastern Europe and Ashkenazi Jewish from 23andme, you'll be close to the 7% that are in Ancestry results. Even though Jewish religion prohibits mixing with other religions and ethnicities, it's obvious that people were always just a people and mixed with whoever their eyes and hearts choose and not what their religious "morals" told them to. So, you can proudly say to your Jewish friends that you are 6-7% Jewish :)
Your entire post is rubbish. Jewish/Hebrew is ethnic. The Palestinians never owned 'the land of cannon' ect..ect...but complete rubbish, not at all factual on any point.
@@canaannoah4712 Yup, you are right, *the ashkenazis are not jewdish* , they are white eastern europeans who converted to judaism in the XII century... The real jewdish race is the semitic, like the shephardi (spanish) wich come from the phoenician/carthaginians branch/heritage. The real jewdish has more to do with the mediterranean peoples than those redhead imposters.
@@antediluvian9144 Balogny, Ashkenazi jews and Sephardic, have the DNA charge of fifth tire cousins, Ashkenazi have even a smaller gene pool, which made them slightly smarter and significantly more exposed to genetic diseases. And above all there was constant documented letter exchange, since late roman period between jewish communities regarding theology, trade help requests
What I would suggest, when one looks at the differences in those tests is, that the percentages are never completely accurate, but that isn't really important.What one can rely on, is the regions/countries, which all tests taken mention (even with different percentages shown). Those are the ones you really have in your DNA!
Americans are always saying they know they're from somewhere in Latin America and then do these tests and are like "wow where is it on my map". In this case she counted the Native American as her "Cuban", like... oh no. There is no such thing as a latin race, we're simply mixed people, so apparently your family that lived in Cuba were white. That's it. The Americas were colonized just like the USA, the only different thing is that we didn't have any type of racial segregation. You wouldn't expect the results to show "x% american from y state", so how can one expect to see any other country of the Americas in there? Also, she probably missed her "Cuban side" in there and acted surprised because maybe she didn't understand it, but let me give you a tip: it's the Iberian percentage.
Latin is the same as Native American. Native Americans are Latin only Native Americans exist in the boundaries of the U.S whereas Latin exist outside those boundaries.
"the only different thing is that we didn't have any type of racial segregation." That's a laugh, Central and particularly South America were and are totally divided between races and classes, with the notable exception of Brazil.
Patriot Jefferson Much Americans/United States -Do not know the difference between Hispanic and Latino but they are not the same and they would be loss for words to find out that Haiti is a Latino country,part of Latin America.
This is so interesting! I am shocked by how many reports you received. It would e interesting to compare the notes between your parents. Happy mothers day :)!
Thanks, Brittany, for sharing your journey through comparative DNA analysis. I have often wondered, as i imagine many others also have, about the accuracy of these testing services. Thanks for your openness with us all.
I got my results a couple weeks ago, and was disappointed that 91% of 23andMe customers had MORE Neanderthal than I do (my count is 250, which is low). BTW, I did AncestryDNA a year ago and just a month ago they updated my profile with new data they now have, and the results were pretty dramatic. So log back in and update your account to see your new results if you have not yet done so.
Mark Turner Actually, it shows that they are reliable. The more people who supply DNA, the more accurate everyone’s results will get. When it first started, they didn’t know where all DNA came from (they still don’t), which gave regional estimates. As the years went by and more people provided samples, those estimates got narrower to the point where you had more defined results.
Wow. I wonder if this happens to everyone. I did Ancestry and the results seemed "off"... but I didn't pursue anything. THEN, a month later they sent me an email with "more" results and those were more accurate to the info I am aware of. I think I got ripped off.
I did the ancestry dna test and it said I was 94% Scandinavian..which is pretty darn close since both my parents are from Iceland. I was surprised because I thought there would be more of a mix of places.
I had dramatically different results between the two also - 23 & me said I was 0.2% Scandinavian but Ancestry said I was 30% Scandinavian!! My understanding is the Ancestry is more accurate given a bigger database of people and twin testing!
Thanks for doing this! I've been looking for a good comparison between the two. My mom is finally getting her adoption records from the 60s unsealed and we are prepared with so many questions!
Berly ashkenazi means european. Mizrachi jews are the ones who have the west Asian/ Semitic genes So, ashkenazi Jewish don’t necessarily look different from other Europeans. The genetic marker for them is different because there was a Jewish migration where they moved toward Europe around 600-800 years ago and there were a decent amount of people in Europe that converted to Judaism. Ashkenazi jews can trace their genes back to around 350 people. I think they married and had kids with those of their own faith so the genetic pool wasn’t all that big. I believe there was a study that shows among ashkenazi Jews they’re all 30th cousins which is why there’s that distinction between ashkenazi Jewish vs a european. Other than that there are plenty that look a very standard european and don’t have that “Jewish” look or mizrachi look
@@queenshad1161 The interesting thing is that mother's side of the family; the fair skined side is traced to some very famous rabbis. Also, some relatives were killed in the Holocaust even-though they are faired skin and even converted to Christianity. My father's side is darker and they do look more Jewish. What you say kind of contradicts its self; they married within the group but at the same time look just like any other Eurpean.
That's interesting because I just got my results back, and had always been told I was German and Cuban. (And by the way, I look 100% white, and am very pale.) So, it turns out I also have almost no German, and about 40% Iberian Peninsula. Kind of a similar situation...
er lo not sure where your evidence comes from. Lots of Irish people have British DNA markers. Lots of British people have Scandinavian markers. Lots of Spanish and Sicilian people have North African DNA markers etc. Etc. My point was that so many people who make these TH-cam videos seem pretty ignorant of geography and world history. Your DNA predates all modern nation-states, so I can’t understand how she thought her DNA would come up “100% Cuban.”
I have had two dna tests come back so far and they are pretty similar just one had over 9% of north african which was shocking since neither of my parents had that on their dna lol. But I'm now waiting for my third test from ancestry where i have a large amount of family tree work done. I think the health one would make me nervous.
It is interesting that on both DNA tests you came out as almost half Italian. Were your Cuban ancestors originally of Italian descent??? The reason I ask is that most Cubans are pure 100% European, but their DNA usually shows as mostly Iberian whereas you come out as mostly Italian. Since Spain is close to italy and both Spain and Italy are Mediterranean countries many Spaniards and Latin Americans have some Italian DNA which is actually Spanish DNA mistaken for Italian DNA. However, in your case the Italian ancestry is so high that it certainly indicates recent Italian ancestry.
I use to think in 1700 my Bavarian ancestors were named after popes. Now I know there was an Italian ancestor that left .8% DNA. Probably Canii from either Italy or Switzerland. There was also a Japanese ancester about that time or earlier. Those Metis were very friendly indians, and probably mixed with Pacific Island spice pirates that came fishing or whaling with the Portugues and Basques.
I recently did mine through 23andMe and was also quite surprised. I’ve since uploaded my raw data to a few other sites (for free) and the results make a little more sense. Most surprising, it’s very possible my mother’s father, who I searched for for decades and finally found, may not be her father after all. He’s Lebanese and I’m still trying to figure out exactly how that would register on these tests. (Any insights are appreciated!) The health section pointed out something life changing, however, and I have 88% less Neanderthal than the other 23andMe clients.
Anything below 5% is unreliable and should be discounted. It's called 'low confidence regions' because the company has not found enough African DNA to say it's actually there.
Toni C Actually the lower percentage is the DNA that goes further back in generations that’s why it’s falling out of her DNA so her children may not pick up that part of her, if you took a 23andMe dna test you’ll understand, like I’m 1.2 percent Native American but it’s from 8+ generations ago 💯
@@Chelseaxoxx I agree, especially because it is now scientifically, historically, and biblically proven that the true Hebrew, Israelites, Jews are the so called African Americans and the victims of the Atlantic Slave Trade and that diaspora. "European Jewish" just means you are from the caucasus region and have ancestry from the people that converted to judaism that claim they are the descendents of Abraham which has, again, been proven scientifically false.
Happy Mother’s Day Mama! To all the mamas here! XO🌷 Now Im kinda tempted to do this even though I believe I know my ancestry pretty well, my mom’s a genealogist. But who knows??
Mother Muse I think it will be even more interesting for you to do it to see how everything match... or not???? Let us know if you did and how it went ? I am planning on doing it myself out of curiosity. 😊
@@mystrangeaddictiontotwice9098 I hope you're conscious that we have white ppl with blond hair and blue eyes (myself lol, I'm 87% north african) in Africa hein? Don't need to be BLACK- VERY DARK to be african... We have ginger ppl here too educate yourself plzzzz.
KINGVILLAOFDAE yes they are but she was expecting Cuba as an ethnicity instead of native american... that is why i mentioned that Cubans are not from Cuba Cuba but a combination of European, African and native mix.
Macular degeneration is age-related (old age) loss of vision. It is quite common in Western Europe, especially in blonde, blue-eyed individuals. Onset can be delayed and severity limited by dietary measures, and if you do get it, there are treatment possibilities and by the time you get it, there will most likely be even better treatment possibilities.
I liked it. I thought it was good. I've been thinking of doing a DNA test but was feeling a bit dubious about them. This shows some relative consistency between the tests which makes me believe that they are somewhat reliable.....
Most Irish, English, Scots have at least one "Scandinavian" ancestor (usually a male). When the VIKINGS came ashore, in addition to pillaging, they raped, voila, "Scandinavian" ancestry!
My dna results were shocking. 24% British 20% Irish 18% Native American 9% Iberian 9% Western European 8% sub Saharan African 2% euro Jew 2% Italian 1% Russian 2% middle eastern and less than 1% of 6 other ethnicities for every corner of the globe.
I took the ancestry DNA test looking for viking and found none. It took me two weeks to follow up with a rumor that the noblemen of the dark ages told. This is who I am decended from. We were the very first horse people and the only tribe the Roman's feared and forced us to be their cavalry. They took the sons very young for 30 years Generationally for centuries. Which forced the daughters to be the warriors and defenders of the tribe. They didn't marry until the men would eventually return to the tribe, they had arranged marriages. They didn't kill the boys but sent them to the fathers to hide from the Roman's. They found their tombs 2yrs ago and have the DNA of the Poles Czechs and Ukrainians. The Roman's have busts of the Sarmatian knights faces 5000yrs ago and my family look like twins of these guys still today and I found out that my last name means the eyebrowbridge of the Sarmatians. I put out my book THE FIRST HORSE PEOPLE, it's the complete history of my ancient tribe the Sarmatian knights and the Amazon women.
I did both tests as well, just for fun!!! I knew where I cam from directly (Northern Ireland/ Derry) Because I was born there and so were my parents, G-prs, and GG-gps But you never know further back, turns out I am over 80% Irish, and little British and then Scandinavian (Finland they believe) which made sense since I am a ginger with blue eyes. As I said in my trace regions there were slight differences but nothing significant. Just go through results carefully and you might notice when you add up the percentages, they are more similar than you think. The bit of African you had showing up I thought was super cool!!! Most of these that you watch a caucasian person comes back as 100% European like I did, but the fact that you were only 97% was cool. Having a touch of something else is so brilliant!!! :) 🌍
I believe the difference between the test as far as your Jewish ancestry are due to how they calculate them. Ashkenazi Jewish is different than European Jewish because they are a select group of Jewish people. European Jewish would include the Jewish Ancestry that would be in Southern Europe to include the Iberian peninsula. Also different companies look at different segments of your DNA so the results should fluctuate slightly due to this examination of different segments of DNA. The other thing is that they only compare results with people in their database instead of a huge database for all DNA tests. You can find relatives through these tests that you share segments of DNA with but you can also use another website called GedMatch that will help with that as well.
I'm a clinical psychologist very familiar with statistical research. Okay, the problem with these DNA tests is they are promoted as ways to reveal information beyond their capacity to provide it. These DNA tests are based on statistical probability of you matching a particular DNA profile from a particular region of the world. The problem is that for most regions of the world there are not enough people in the data base to develop a good comparison. The biggest DNA data bases are from North America and Western Europe. But outside of that the data bases are relatively small. That's why a black person who clearly has African DNA will do one of these tests and the results will not pickup on that DNA at all and will say they are European, because the European data bases are so large. (There's actually a hilarious video of a young black woman in a near state of shock because her test results say she is basically white, when clearly she is not.) So, take your results with a grain of salt, so to speak especially when the percentages get very low.
Yes, but if you're looking for further info and have matches done with other testers (lets just say your adopted and you want to know if you match up with anyone), it's worth it.
Take both results, merge them, and they give you a result which shows something that can be used to more accurately determine where your ancestors might be from. Basically, they're both right, because they rely on comparing your results with a group of samples from individual regions. Each company uses different samples, and no samples are exactly representative of a region because Human move around, so they won't necessarily agree with each other. They look at a model which takes a group of people in each region and finds common traits within those groups, which are identifiably different from the other groups, so based on their samples, those are accurate within their database. Overall, the strongest results should tend to agree with each other. Your results basically say that you are Indo-European and Semitic, with some influence from North Africa and Scandinavia. The East Asian and Indigenous American most likely, (I'm actually certain, but that's my opinion as they say), originates on the Scandinavian side, through the Sammi people of Finland, but it is a long way back in history. The Sammi people are the same people that migrated to North America, though distantly related. I generally believe that they split off from the people that would become the Indigenous people of America during the migration in the last Ice Age, and kept wandering up past Greenland, to Svalbard, and eventually into Norway and then Finland. This is where they would have mixed with your distant Scandinavian Ancestors. Remember the North See and Arctic Circle would have been Ice all the way to the UK around that time. The Iberian on the other hand, is where your African and Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry most likely comes, as Iberians migrated with the Trade Routes of the Semitic peoples, and I believe tended to have spent some time in North Africa mixing with the Berber population there, (themselves a mix of Semitic and African peoples), before migrating into Spain and Portugul, and eventually up into the Iberian Peninsula, and to the Britain and Wales from there. As your Ancestry indicates Western European, I'm inclined to think that's probably from Spain and Portugal as well; while the Balkan, German and French, would likely indicate distant ancestry from the Hittite people of Anatolia and the Levant, (interesting that it shows up, but I think that's a numbers game), and the Italian represents the strongest influence on your Ancestry, but it might interest you to know it also is likely a mix of Semitic, North African, and Indo-European. So basically, the Mediterranean is a melting pot, and you're part of it, but some distant ancestor likely also originated in Norway, Sweden, or possibly Denmark or even Finland, moved through the British Isles, and their Ancestors moved from there into Spain and Portugal, and eventually your now Spanish and Italian Ancestors met up, and here you are. -ish.
With regard to your eyes: the Cuban people are typically a mix of Iberian Spanish and Latino people. Latinos of South America and Central America are a mix of Native American, Europeans and sometimes African even. So that's where you could have Asian features if your mother is Cubano.
I've taken two DNA tests, Ancestry DNA and My Heritage DNA. There were differences in the results. My Heritage DNA showed a significant amount of Iberian ancestry while Ancestry DNA did not. My Heritage DNA also showed 15% West Asian Ancestry while Ancestry DNA showed 2% Levant.
I know the MyHeritage DNA test is not realy accurate because they don't have enouth DNA samples of all countries. In France for example DNA tests are forbidden exept for legaly reasons.
For those commentating that she glossed over her African part. Firstly she does mention it. Secondly its under the low confidence, this means that people in the area have something similar. But 23andme doesn't have enough data to actually say that the dna shared came from an African ancestor or an immigrant to Africa.
You should do a follow up on this because Ancestry has updated almost everyone's DNA results in the last few months. They have things more narrowed down than just Europe South.
Very interesting results from the tests. As a result of your video, I am going to order the 23 & me kit. Thank you for producing the video which was filled with great information. Good luck with your site.
Most Cubans are not Cuban at all. There is no cuban dna. Like they say in the island, we all got off of a boat meaning we all came from somewhere else. Cuban here too
You should know that as Ancestry updates theirs technology AND as your family adds information across the board, your results become more detailed. I also had Iberian Peninsula for a while and now it's below 1% and practically gone. While the other sides have increased and become more specific.
1:50 marks, you are correct Brittany to think that. In the Bible it speaks of people being brought back to their land. I worry about these test as they are not 100 percent right. I think about 60 percent is the right number. First of all, one has to collect samples of all nations that have not moved and have been un-tampered.
When did you figure out that the $99 US Explorer Subscription was not for your DNA kit? When did you figure out that you don't need a subscription to order a DNA kit from Ancestry to get your DNA results?
From what I have been told, the different results are because of the number of samples that each company might have to compare them to from the various regions, but, I might be mistaken. The difference in the Jewishness is nothing to be concerned about, seeing that the Ashkenazi Jews are those that reside in Modern Israel, having come out of the Holocaust. There are not the original Hebrews, however, they are a sect of the Jewish Race from that was dispersed by Rome. So, Italy is a country where many of these Jewish Families would have ended up, meaning do indeed have Jewish DNA. Ancestry, if you pay for the lowest cost is going to only give you the basic results and if you pay for a better upgrade you will get better results. I might have to see what 23 & Me says about me, which would make this my 3rd test. Ancestry keeps updating my results as more customers DNA tests are compared, so, it would appear that is who it works with them.
When "European Jewish" is mentioned, that's both Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewish. the latter lived in Italy and Spain, and many families went to Cuba. 23&Me doesn't have any Sephardic Jewish in their model.
Hey Brittany, I just stumbled across your page and saw your video, it was awesome. However, I noticed your last name and that’s the same name my family originated from. My grandparent always told me that who ever had that last name was some how family of mine, and since I really don’t know my dads side that well, it wouldn’t be impossible. I just ordered a 23&me test, which is why I was looking at comparisons lol. Well, idk if you’ll see this but if you do, please reply back. I would love to talk! P.S: My family is from Cuba too!
East Asian is the same as Indian, they’re just named differently. Also if your Cuban you’re West Indian, and there is a heavy East Indian influence in the Caribbean.
They're stealing your money. You know they just sit around and laugh and say: "What should we say this one is like? Let's make her italian and Jewish, LOL."
Not only is the risk of a breach very real, but consider what they're actually using your DNA for. Do you think they're just trying to reconnect people with their actual ancestry? They're conducting studies on people's DNA
The different priced Ancestry packages just give you access to different tools to look up family trees. It’s gives the same genetic results for all packages. Chose Ancestry because their database is used by investigative geneticists to find lost relatives. And I found out my dad was not my dad by finding a half sister.
23andme said I was.1% African and Ancestry didn't put any African in me and Ancestry changed the Spanish I had to Italian alot of times they get the two mixed up because they are both southern European DNA.
So I know I’m seeing this months after you posted it, but I thought I’d comment on the macular degeneration since many people aren’t commenting on that. Your slight increased risk is probably because it is more common in women with a fair complexion. However, the largest risk for getting it is smoking cigarettes so if you don’t have a family history of it and don’t smoke you should be fine.
Happy Mother's Day to all the mama's watching!!
VasseurBeauty happy Mother’s Day 💖
same to u dear
VasseurBeauty Happy mother's day to you too
Happy mothers day to you too
you should change your channel name to Brittney Vasseur
My results came in, turns out I'm half labrador half german shepherd
Eden Forest, Were you predicted to bark, bite of just growl a lot! Woof! Woof! :)
In other words, you eat out of the bin, but stop when someone tells you too
A mutt
I think you took the wrong test xD
My!!! That must've been rufff!
Btw, Cuba also has a lot of iberian peninsula heritage.
And potentially some African as well.
nich0lee well, yeah, but not necessarily
I'm just saying because her 23andMe results had some African.
nich0lee oh, yeah, that little african is from Cuba
Yeah, because Cuban is not an ethnicity it's a nationality. So it would never show up on a DNA result. Some Cubans are blonde haired blue-eyed of European extraction and others are completely of African extraction, furthermore some our middle Eastern
I wonder what would happen if you use a dog's saliva😶
OOFLALA BISH they do make these tests for cats and dogs🤣
You would have results of 100% dog. Every species has their own genetic code and each human has their own code that makes you, you.
You’d get it back saying 100% Somalian
That would be funny, what kind of form letter would you receive
I’ve got no doubt they are having to deal with smart arses sending in random DNA, huge price tag or not. They would probably have a suitably wisecracking report all ready to send back. If not, they should.
Brittany can I just say VasseurBeauty is still incredible fitting - your channel is indeed all about beauty - inspiring people to make their life more beautiful in every area, not only all outside areas (physical/material things) and making things simpler to have more time for the beauty in life but also your family, the people and the way you interact with each other is so precious and beautiful, it is very inspiring to watch. YOU are beautiful inside and out and this is what you carry out into the world, I love the name still, I‘m glad you didn’t change it! 😘
Much love from Cologne, Germany ♥️
Vio Lectra this comment is so positive and BEAUTIFUL, honestly. Probably one of the sweetest comments I’ve seen in a while in the TH-cam comments section. And I 100% agree that her channel is about different kinds of beauty
So beautifully said!
♥️🙏
I'm adopted & did a test to learn about my DNA heritage, & also learned the identity of my birth father's family. That was shocking as I never expected the database to be large enough to find family members. Fortunately in my case it was a happy ending ..
Lori, which test did you use?
Cubans are mostly white, of Spanish descent. That's your Iberian part.
Ephy says who?
Lola Joselin history says so
Her North African percentage is also part of the Cuban ancestry. Most DNA services have difficulty discerning between Iberia and North Africa, which makes complete sense historically.
Ephy Cubans are mostly black
@@spacejaime Correct. I'm not confused about this. Her 23andMe result says she has North African influence, which is typical for Iberians due to the close geographic and historical ties. I don't think we disagree on this?
So... Your dad is of German descent???
You might want to talk to your mom about those results then... 🤔😅😀
lol
:))
Let me guess?
Because her dad was a German, that he was a Nazi, right?
Come on, spit it out? 😆
Bad news!!!
Adolph was also half Jew! 😱
@@YaHUKaB_ShaRYAL_YaShaRAL because she got majority Italian...
@@Daisy-Doo the mail man was italian???
I thought I should bring up the Neanderthal DNA, since you seem so shocked by it. Your Iberian DNA is the source of your Neanderthal DNA. 23andMe talks about this as well. Other proto-humans existed around the same time, including denisova hominin (aka, Denisovans) in Asia, so most people with South Asian DNA have "higher than average" Denisovan DNA. People from the Iberian peninsula are Spanish & Portuguese, but the Neanderthals that merged into that gene pool had a similar MC1R gene variant as Irish and Scottish people, giving them red hair and freckles. However, it's a slightly different gene variant of the same gene, and no modern humans with red hair got it from Neanderthals. However, because of Natural Selection, geneticists think that the gene mutation developed independently in two different parts of the world for the same reason.
Though popular culture often portrays Neanderthals as primitive and stupid, they actually had bigger brains than homo sapiens. They also are one of the few great-ape descended proto-humans that had hyoid bones developed properly to give them the ability of speech, just like homo sapiens. They were also more muscular.
It's also probably valid to bring up that your Cuban heritage can be tied to your Iberian DNA, since Cuba was a Spanish colony starting in the 16th Century. Most Latino people have Spanish DNA because of the history of conquest.
this is FASCINATING thank you!
Wow!! An amazing answer to an amazing video. . I want to do a DNA test but I want to know more first. I want to know which company to chose. I'll still wait a while to see if it's revealed a scam.
I hope it isn't. That would be so sad.
You could make a fortune with your knowledge. ...I'd love you to explain my results if I ever do it.
All the best 🌸
Carlos, yes this is true. Homo neanderthalensis only existed in Europe (mostly around the Iberian peninsula), so people who have no European ancestors (like Asian people that are not East-Asian, and people who are from Africa originally and never left and never had European ancestors in their line) will have 0% Neanderthal DNA. However, the average European has ~2% DNA, whereas people from the Iberian region (like Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, etc.) will have higher percentage.
Heather Morgan All humans that are not 100% African have Neanderthal DNA.
I disagree. The Neanderthal DNA is definitely southern Italy. The original population of much of Italy were the Etruscans, and as DNA anaysis has shown, the Etruscans had a very strong admixture of Neanderthal DNA.
Cubans ancestry is pretty much the Iberian peninsula. I'm Cuban and I don't know any Cubans who are native americans. Most of them are Europeans or African-Cubans. The Iberian peninsula part would show your Cuban ancestry and not the native American part.
no Chinese DNA in there?
I'm 100% Portuguese and many of my DNA matches are from Cuba. Meaning, all 4 of their grandparents are pure Cuban. Portuguese and Spanish DNA is closely related, so not surprised.
Melissa De la Cruz Cuban ancestry is 90% black
Willie I recently finded out anout chinese people spreading their genes on Cuba :D :D :D cheap labor force and there you go :D
I went to school with a Del la Cruz. This is my favorite name. If I ever change my name, this is it.
Iberian Peninsula definitely matches your Cuban side given that it was Spanish territory. :) I’m Cuban-American and my ancestors trace back to Spaniards as well. So interesting! I just might bite the bullet and finally get mine done. Thank you for this video. 💛
80% of British DNA is IBERIAN from the original Iberan population that immigrated to Brittany about 12000 years ago from the Iberian Peninsula. The Celtic immigration (3500 years ago) and the Anglo-Saxon immigration (1500 years ago), although that had profound influences on culture and language, did not influence the basic British DNA strain.
I use Brittany to refer to the the group of Islands called Britannia, and not to French Bretagne.
@@rhdkabardian so if it says you have a % of Iberian what would the possible races be? So interested! I love this ish. Lol
The Basques are the only remnants of the Iberians in Western Europe. Except for the Basques, the Iberians were totally eliminated or assimilated by the Indo-Europeans. The Basques probably survived because they were located in the Pyrenees Mountains. Note that there are some geographical names left: the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal), and the area of Iberia in the Caucasus.
@@rhdkabardian
I'm not sure that is true: Neolithic farmers (from France) re-colonised Britain about 1000BC!
So the British are as much that as anything!
It's so funny to watch Americans taking these tests.
Why?
tattogirl89hc Americans don’t know geography very well. She said her Native American would be her Cuban side but it would be Iberian peninsula part actually.
AdaylnTheLifeOf cause everyone of Latin America is of Spaniard decent??
Panzer Tank I did not say that, I was talking specifically about Cuba not of the entirety of South America. Most Cubans originated from the Iberian peninsula (ie Spain and Portugal). The Native American population was largely wiped out.
AdaylnTheLifeOf why did you say South America as a term for the entirety of Latin America? It bothers me so much when people say that like they forget about the other regions in the American Continent.
You understand Cuba was largely populated by Spanish and European immigrants after the natives died out from disease and war right? It shouldn’t be that shocking that you’re 10% Iberian.
MyNameIsJ3ff right lol
I thought Cubans had a higher European admixture
I just received my result. Turns out I'm 61% sloth. Never been the same since.
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Hang in there 😉
Usha Reddy ?
I am too...see ya at the reunion if I make it out of my tree in time....starting NOW
@@gigyoung1983 61% sloth not bad. Say, two-toed and three-toed sloth. You'll get there faster if you'd swim, you might be better at it. Ha!
Ancestry always puts the AncestryDNA test kits on sale around all holidays. Shipping & handling is around $15-16. You can get the kits as low as $59. I did the 23andme test years ago and then the Ancestry one a couple of years ago. My results were similar. We forget that people traveled and moved to other countries, even back then. I'm adopted and mixed, so I was happy it showed by genetic backgrounds. It's pretty cool! Plus, I located two sisters on my biological father's side. I'm the family genealogist for both my adopted and biological families. Take the health reports cautiously, as they originally were told by the FDA they couldn't offer them anymore because there was no empirical data. For example, I have a 24% greater risk of developing macular degeneration. After speaking with my retina specialist, he told me based on my history and condition I did not have the greater risk.
Pamela Flynn Never their shipping and handling that high. Mine was 9.95 must depend where you live.
It's been awhile so maybe they've lowered it.
Yeah the medical / health side is not accurate at all.
That was so interesting, Brittany! I think it would become more clear to you if you test both of your parents.
I've seen that you were little bit confused regarding your Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry, so I'll try to explain it as best as I can. Both of the results were kind of right. The thing is that while migrating from Israel, they passed through Anatolia (Turkey), Balkans, Eastern Europe and Germany. Some of them stayed in those places and some of them continued migrating and searching for better life conditions. So if you sum up the percentages from Balkans, Eastern Europe and Ashkenazi Jewish from 23andme, you'll be close to the 7% that are in Ancestry results. Even though Jewish religion prohibits mixing with other religions and ethnicities, it's obvious that people were always just a people and mixed with whoever their eyes and hearts choose and not what their religious "morals" told them to. So, you can proudly say to your Jewish friends that you are 6-7% Jewish :)
Your entire post is rubbish. Jewish/Hebrew is ethnic. The Palestinians never owned 'the land of cannon' ect..ect...but complete rubbish, not at all factual on any point.
@@canaannoah4712 Yup, you are right, *the ashkenazis are not jewdish* , they are white eastern europeans who converted to judaism in the XII century... The real jewdish race is the semitic, like the shephardi (spanish) wich come from the phoenician/carthaginians branch/heritage.
The real jewdish has more to do with the mediterranean peoples than those redhead imposters.
@@antediluvian9144 Balogny, Ashkenazi jews and Sephardic, have the DNA charge of fifth tire cousins, Ashkenazi have even a smaller gene pool, which made them slightly smarter and significantly more exposed to genetic diseases.
And above all there was constant documented letter exchange, since late roman period between jewish communities regarding theology, trade help requests
Thank you
Mama Gina GG 🤣 lol you don’t even know what you’re saying ! No evidence, no nothing , you just want to blab 😂
What I would suggest, when one looks at the differences in those tests is, that the percentages are never completely accurate, but that isn't really important.What one can rely on, is the regions/countries, which all tests taken mention (even with different percentages shown). Those are the ones you really have in your DNA!
Americans are always saying they know they're from somewhere in Latin America and then do these tests and are like "wow where is it on my map". In this case she counted the Native American as her "Cuban", like... oh no. There is no such thing as a latin race, we're simply mixed people, so apparently your family that lived in Cuba were white. That's it. The Americas were colonized just like the USA, the only different thing is that we didn't have any type of racial segregation. You wouldn't expect the results to show "x% american from y state", so how can one expect to see any other country of the Americas in there?
Also, she probably missed her "Cuban side" in there and acted surprised because maybe she didn't understand it, but let me give you a tip: it's the Iberian percentage.
Latin is the same as Native American. Native Americans are Latin only Native Americans exist in the boundaries of the U.S whereas Latin exist outside those boundaries.
Alatar Incorrect on all counts. Jesus Christ. Lol. Latin is not a race nor does it denote Native American.
"the only different thing is that we didn't have any type of racial segregation." That's a laugh, Central and particularly South America were and are totally divided between races and classes, with the notable exception of Brazil.
Patriot Jefferson Much Americans/United States -Do not know the difference between Hispanic and Latino but they are not the same and they would be loss for words to find out that Haiti is a Latino country,part of Latin America.
Eduarda Gomes Cubans did indeed have racial segregation!!!!! My family is Cuban and yes white Cubans practiced racism for more than 100 years!!!!!
This is so interesting! I am shocked by how many reports you received. It would e interesting to compare the notes between your parents. Happy mothers day :)!
Thanks, Brittany, for sharing your journey through comparative DNA analysis. I have often wondered, as i imagine many others also have, about the accuracy of these testing services. Thanks for your openness with us all.
I got my results a couple weeks ago, and was disappointed that 91% of 23andMe customers had MORE Neanderthal than I do (my count is 250, which is low). BTW, I did AncestryDNA a year ago and just a month ago they updated my profile with new data they now have, and the results were pretty dramatic. So log back in and update your account to see your new results if you have not yet done so.
Just goes to show how unreliable they are then.
What? Are you disappointed for not being Neanderthal enough? Why? You need to be happy bro!
Mark Turner Actually, it shows that they are reliable. The more people who supply DNA, the more accurate everyone’s results will get. When it first started, they didn’t know where all DNA came from (they still don’t), which gave regional estimates. As the years went by and more people provided samples, those estimates got narrower to the point where you had more defined results.
Wow. I wonder if this happens to everyone. I did Ancestry and the results seemed "off"... but I didn't pursue anything. THEN, a month later they sent me an email with "more" results and those were more accurate to the info I am aware of. I think I got ripped off.
Update: They later reversed what they said and now I have more Neanderthal DNA than 95% of their customers. Go figure.
I did the ancestry dna test and it said I was 94% Scandinavian..which is pretty darn close since both my parents are from Iceland. I was surprised because I thought there would be more of a mix of places.
Not for Scandanavia as I have always read that these countries races have, for the most part remained pure for eons.
I had dramatically different results between the two also - 23 & me said I was 0.2% Scandinavian but Ancestry said I was 30% Scandinavian!! My understanding is the Ancestry is more accurate given a bigger database of people and twin testing!
Sarah Dunn wow that’s a big difference
They are all bs
@@GoldenBoyDims Really?
I'm not really surprised about the Italian, you look it to me!
Thanks for doing this! I've been looking for a good comparison between the two. My mom is finally getting her adoption records from the 60s unsealed and we are prepared with so many questions!
Ashkenazi Jewish and European Jewish are the same thing.
Edit Okay,you figured it out.
my mother's DNA was almost 100% Ashkenzi Jewish. Funny thing is that her side of the family doesn't look Jewish.
You can't look Jewish.
indeed, of course there are common features that Jewish ppl have. These relatives are also faired skin.
Berly ashkenazi means european. Mizrachi jews are the ones who have the west Asian/ Semitic genes So, ashkenazi Jewish don’t necessarily look different from other Europeans. The genetic marker for them is different because there was a Jewish migration where they moved toward Europe around 600-800 years ago and there were a decent amount of people in Europe that converted to Judaism. Ashkenazi jews can trace their genes back to around 350 people. I think they married and had kids with those of their own faith so the genetic pool wasn’t all that big. I believe there was a study that shows among ashkenazi Jews they’re all 30th cousins which is why there’s that distinction between ashkenazi Jewish vs a european. Other than that there are plenty that look a very standard european and don’t have that “Jewish” look or mizrachi look
@@queenshad1161 The interesting thing is that mother's side of the family; the
fair skined side is traced to some very famous rabbis. Also, some
relatives were killed in the Holocaust even-though they are faired skin and even converted to Christianity. My father's side is darker and they do look
more Jewish. What you say kind of contradicts its self; they married within the group but at the same time look just like any other Eurpean.
The Iberian percentage may be your Cuban heritage - Cuba was a Spanish territory for a long time :)
That's interesting because I just got my results back, and had always been told I was German and Cuban. (And by the way, I look 100% white, and am very pale.) So, it turns out I also have almost no German, and about 40% Iberian Peninsula. Kind of a similar situation...
And Southern Italy was part of Spain for centuries.
er lo not sure where your evidence comes from. Lots of Irish people have British DNA markers. Lots of British people have Scandinavian markers. Lots of Spanish and Sicilian people have North African DNA markers etc. Etc. My point was that so many people who make these TH-cam videos seem pretty ignorant of geography and world history. Your DNA predates all modern nation-states, so I can’t understand how she thought her DNA would come up “100% Cuban.”
orphansparrow there’s many white Cubans who are European or predominantly European .
clone armies keep me up at night too tbh, not even joking
I have had two dna tests come back so far and they are pretty similar just one had over 9% of north african which was shocking since neither of my parents had that on their dna lol. But I'm now waiting for my third test from ancestry where i have a large amount of family tree work done. I think the health one would make me nervous.
Andrea Home & Life Can you make a video about it, it would be interesting
Berika • when I get my ancestry yes I can and will. I think I have to wait another or so for results still 😊
Andrea Home & Life did they have more Iberian or DNA from a Spanish speaking country?
Sharon B yes! My mom is over 20% Spanish
It is interesting that on both DNA tests you came out as almost half Italian. Were your Cuban ancestors originally of Italian descent??? The reason I ask is that most Cubans are pure 100% European, but their DNA usually shows as mostly Iberian whereas you come out as mostly Italian. Since Spain is close to italy and both Spain and Italy are Mediterranean countries many Spaniards and Latin Americans have some Italian DNA which is actually Spanish DNA mistaken for Italian DNA. However, in your case the Italian ancestry is so high that it certainly indicates recent Italian ancestry.
Mark R that’s what I’m thinking
Southern Italy was part of Spain for several centuries! look it up!
Spain (In terms of DNA) is more related to France and Great Britain than Italy.
But where is her of German descent dad? 🤔😅😀
I use to think in 1700 my Bavarian ancestors were named after popes. Now I know there was an Italian ancestor that left .8% DNA. Probably Canii from either Italy or Switzerland. There was also a Japanese ancester about that time or earlier. Those Metis were very friendly indians, and probably mixed with Pacific Island spice pirates that came fishing or whaling with the Portugues and Basques.
I recently did mine through 23andMe and was also quite surprised. I’ve since uploaded my raw data to a few other sites (for free) and the results make a little more sense. Most surprising, it’s very possible my mother’s father, who I searched for for decades and finally found, may not be her father after all. He’s Lebanese and I’m still trying to figure out exactly how that would register on these tests. (Any insights are appreciated!) The health section pointed out something life changing, however, and I have 88% less Neanderthal than the other 23andMe clients.
Middle eastern
I like how she tries to look over the fact she has African in her DNA 🤔 even if it’s a low percent, it’s still there
Wavy Davy I Peeped that too, was wondering if anyone saw it as well
Anything below 5% is unreliable and should be discounted. It's called 'low confidence regions' because the company has not found enough African DNA to say it's actually there.
Toni C Actually the lower percentage is the DNA that goes further back in generations that’s why it’s falling out of her DNA so her children may not pick up that part of her, if you took a 23andMe dna test you’ll understand, like I’m 1.2 percent Native American but it’s from 8+ generations ago 💯
Wavy Davy True true
@@Chelseaxoxx I agree, especially because it is now scientifically, historically, and biblically proven that the true Hebrew, Israelites, Jews are the so called African Americans and the victims of the Atlantic Slave Trade and that diaspora. "European Jewish" just means you are from the caucasus region and have ancestry from the people that converted to judaism that claim they are the descendents of Abraham which has, again, been proven scientifically false.
Happy mothers day Brittney!!❤❤
Happy Mother’s Day Mama! To all the mamas here! XO🌷
Now Im kinda tempted to do this even though I believe I know my ancestry pretty well, my mom’s a genealogist.
But who knows??
Mother Muse I think it will be even more interesting for you to do it to see how everything match... or not???? Let us know if you did and how it went ?
I am planning on doing it myself out of curiosity. 😊
hah, genealogist know the "formal" version, DNA tells the true story who made who :D LOL
i did the 'test', they sent me some seeds and a letter advising me to start a new family tree.
😂😂😂
Ronald Champoux 😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
You know what they say, you can pick your nose, you can pick your friends, but you can not pick your relatives.
You're 3% African. Welcome my Homie
She's only 0.7% Sub Saharan African.
Samurai xxx She’s still white tho she barely has any African in her lol
Samurai xxx She’s still white tho she barely has any African in her lol
@@mystrangeaddictiontotwice9098 I hope you're conscious that we have white ppl with blond hair and blue eyes (myself lol, I'm 87% north african) in Africa hein? Don't need to be BLACK- VERY DARK to be african... We have ginger ppl here too educate yourself plzzzz.
@@elena79rus So that means she's not as bad as someone who is 3%. HA HA
Cubans are not really "from Cuba" so that might explain why Cuba was not in your results
KINGVILLAOFDAE yes they are but she was expecting Cuba as an ethnicity instead of native american... that is why i mentioned that Cubans are not from Cuba Cuba but a combination of European, African and native mix.
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23 and me was far more accurate for me. I recommend it
Not when that test says there was such thing as a Neanderthal.
Only bl@ck racist & secular Zionists made that shit up!
David A. Fye II , wtf are you talking about?
I did both of these as well and they matched pretty good also. It was fun!
You really look Italian… First time when I’ve watched your Channel, This was my first impression to..🥰🥰
Your more native American than senator Elizabeth Warren
😂🤣🤣😂👌👌
why americans are obsess to find out their native american genes??
😂🤣
Haha I thought of that too
@@Nico_r08 Free college? 🤷
I liked it. I thought it was good. I've been thinking of doing a DNA test but was feeling a bit dubious about them. This shows some relative consistency between the tests which makes me believe that they are somewhat reliable.....
Most Irish, English, Scots have at least one "Scandinavian" ancestor (usually a male). When the VIKINGS came ashore, in addition to pillaging, they raped, voila, "Scandinavian" ancestry!
My dna results were shocking. 24% British 20% Irish 18% Native American 9% Iberian 9% Western European 8% sub Saharan African 2% euro Jew 2% Italian 1% Russian 2% middle eastern and less than 1% of 6 other ethnicities for every corner of the globe.
Rafael. Wow, British & Native. How did that happen? :)
I took the ancestry DNA test looking for viking and found none. It took me two weeks to follow up with a rumor that the noblemen of the dark ages told.
This is who I am decended from. We were the very first horse people and the only tribe the Roman's feared and forced us to be their cavalry. They took the sons very young for 30 years Generationally for centuries. Which forced the daughters to be the warriors and defenders of the tribe. They didn't marry until the men would eventually return to the tribe, they had arranged marriages. They didn't kill the boys but sent them to the fathers to hide from the Roman's. They found their tombs 2yrs ago and have the DNA of the Poles Czechs and Ukrainians. The Roman's have busts of the Sarmatian knights faces 5000yrs ago and my family look like twins of these guys still today and I found out that my last name means the eyebrowbridge of the Sarmatians.
I put out my book THE FIRST HORSE PEOPLE, it's the complete history of my ancient tribe the Sarmatian knights and the Amazon women.
Thank you for taking the time to do this
I did both tests as well, just for fun!!! I knew where I cam from directly (Northern Ireland/ Derry) Because I was born there and so were my parents, G-prs, and GG-gps But you never know further back, turns out I am over 80% Irish, and little British and then Scandinavian (Finland they believe) which made sense since I am a ginger with blue eyes. As I said in my trace regions there were slight differences but nothing significant. Just go through results carefully and you might notice when you add up the percentages, they are more similar than you think. The bit of African you had showing up I thought was super cool!!! Most of these that you watch a caucasian person comes back as 100% European like I did, but the fact that you were only 97% was cool. Having a touch of something else is so brilliant!!! :) 🌍
Siobhan Kirby just letting you know that Finland is not Scandinavia. Scandinavia is Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Finland has a separate category :)
Klara Arvidsson Thanks!!! Realised my mistake after I typed it 😞
Happy Mother's Day!! ❤
I believe the difference between the test as far as your Jewish ancestry are due to how they calculate them. Ashkenazi Jewish is different than European Jewish because they are a select group of Jewish people. European Jewish would include the Jewish Ancestry that would be in Southern Europe to include the Iberian peninsula. Also different companies look at different segments of your DNA so the results should fluctuate slightly due to this examination of different segments of DNA. The other thing is that they only compare results with people in their database instead of a huge database for all DNA tests. You can find relatives through these tests that you share segments of DNA with but you can also use another website called GedMatch that will help with that as well.
I'm a clinical psychologist very familiar with statistical research. Okay, the problem with these DNA tests is they are promoted as ways to reveal information beyond their capacity to provide it. These DNA tests are based on statistical probability of you matching a particular DNA profile from a particular region of the world. The problem is that for most regions of the world there are not enough people in the data base to develop a good comparison. The biggest DNA data bases are from North America and Western Europe. But outside of that the data bases are relatively small. That's why a black person who clearly has African DNA will do one of these tests and the results will not pickup on that DNA at all and will say they are European, because the European data bases are so large. (There's actually a hilarious video of a young black woman in a near state of shock because her test results say she is basically white, when clearly she is not.) So, take your results with a grain of salt, so to speak especially when the percentages get very low.
"Hello my name is Brittany" as if it could be anything else. LOL
Good perspective on an entirely unregulated industry though.
Does the inconsistency ... show that forensics using dna data might be flawed?
Yes, but if you're looking for further info and have matches done with other testers (lets just say your adopted and you want to know if you match up with anyone), it's worth it.
Take both results, merge them, and they give you a result which shows something that can be used to more accurately determine where your ancestors might be from. Basically, they're both right, because they rely on comparing your results with a group of samples from individual regions. Each company uses different samples, and no samples are exactly representative of a region because Human move around, so they won't necessarily agree with each other.
They look at a model which takes a group of people in each region and finds common traits within those groups, which are identifiably different from the other groups, so based on their samples, those are accurate within their database. Overall, the strongest results should tend to agree with each other.
Your results basically say that you are Indo-European and Semitic, with some influence from North Africa and Scandinavia. The East Asian and Indigenous American most likely, (I'm actually certain, but that's my opinion as they say), originates on the Scandinavian side, through the Sammi people of Finland, but it is a long way back in history. The Sammi people are the same people that migrated to North America, though distantly related.
I generally believe that they split off from the people that would become the Indigenous people of America during the migration in the last Ice Age, and kept wandering up past Greenland, to Svalbard, and eventually into Norway and then Finland. This is where they would have mixed with your distant Scandinavian Ancestors. Remember the North See and Arctic Circle would have been Ice all the way to the UK around that time.
The Iberian on the other hand, is where your African and Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry most likely comes, as Iberians migrated with the Trade Routes of the Semitic peoples, and I believe tended to have spent some time in North Africa mixing with the Berber population there, (themselves a mix of Semitic and African peoples), before migrating into Spain and Portugul, and eventually up into the Iberian Peninsula, and to the Britain and Wales from there.
As your Ancestry indicates Western European, I'm inclined to think that's probably from Spain and Portugal as well; while the Balkan, German and French, would likely indicate distant ancestry from the Hittite people of Anatolia and the Levant, (interesting that it shows up, but I think that's a numbers game), and the Italian represents the strongest influence on your Ancestry, but it might interest you to know it also is likely a mix of Semitic, North African, and Indo-European.
So basically, the Mediterranean is a melting pot, and you're part of it, but some distant ancestor likely also originated in Norway, Sweden, or possibly Denmark or even Finland, moved through the British Isles, and their Ancestors moved from there into Spain and Portugal, and eventually your now Spanish and Italian Ancestors met up, and here you are. -ish.
I’ve heard after you do the tests, go and recheck the websites and they’ll have another update on your history. I don’t know how long you should wait.
Ancestry recently updated their results which got rid of the European Jewish category, you should recheck your results.
With regard to your eyes: the Cuban people are typically a mix of Iberian Spanish and Latino people. Latinos of South America and Central America are a mix of Native American, Europeans and sometimes African even. So that's where you could have Asian features if your mother is Cubano.
I've taken two DNA tests, Ancestry DNA and My Heritage DNA. There were differences in the results. My Heritage DNA showed a significant amount of Iberian ancestry while Ancestry DNA did not. My Heritage DNA also showed 15% West Asian Ancestry while Ancestry DNA showed 2% Levant.
I know the MyHeritage DNA test is not realy accurate because they don't have enouth DNA samples of all countries. In France for example DNA tests are forbidden exept for legaly reasons.
Everyone I know got an email when their results came in. Maybe yours went into a spam folder?
For those commentating that she glossed over her African part. Firstly she does mention it. Secondly its under the low confidence, this means that people in the area have something similar. But 23andme doesn't have enough data to actually say that the dna shared came from an African ancestor or an immigrant to Africa.
People often confuse the country their family came from as their ethnicity.
The different companies may use different markers to identify thier slightly different regions.
You should do a follow up on this because Ancestry has updated almost everyone's DNA results in the last few months. They have things more narrowed down than just Europe South.
wow you are legit half italian
She looks part Italian and Armenian even😮
Very interesting results from the tests. As a result of your video, I am going to order the 23 & me kit. Thank you for producing the video which was filled with great information. Good luck with your site.
I have took 2 different test also just to see what it would say. And im still waiting for my 2nd results
Most Cubans are not Cuban at all. There is no cuban dna. Like they say in the island, we all got off of a boat meaning we all came from somewhere else. Cuban here too
She tiptoed over that African percentage lmao
North African so basically spanish/arab
yes, and i dont understand why?
@@NamiWonderful Because it's north African. As in spanish/Arab. I'm guessing you pair are american? Africa is a diverse place. Not just blacks.
DNA companies literally just throw in those to make people happy. If it’s that little it should not show up or be there.
chairman meow those people are immigrants...FYI.
An update on this video would be cool! Btw... they go on sale every Mother's Day and every Father's Day
Talk all of your relatives into taking the test!!! (Sooner than later!)
You should know that as Ancestry updates theirs technology AND as your family adds information across the board, your results become more detailed. I also had Iberian Peninsula for a while and now it's below 1% and practically gone. While the other sides have increased and become more specific.
Mother's day and Christmas are always on sale. I did 23& me too but it was way out there so def not accurate. So I'm sticking with ancestry
I've heard of companies being a tad shady with test results, especially if they know you're white; often makes me wonder how accurate it all truly is.
*"Often if you're white"* -- What, Lol?
If you are going to make a potentially libelous claim, then please provide references.
The fine print says that any value under 10% is a “best guess”.
Ancestry does autosomal testing and 23/Me does genotyping. That’s why results vary.
Data banks. They'll use it if they need to.
...and society will be better for it. Rapists, murderers, and serially slutty men are the only people who need to worry.
12:50 I love the way you ignored having Arab DNA in you lol
Dont shy from your ancestors.
1:50 marks, you are correct Brittany to think that. In the Bible it speaks of people being brought back to their land. I worry about these test as they are not 100 percent right. I think about 60 percent is the right number. First of all, one has to collect samples of all nations that have not moved and have been un-tampered.
Ancestry is the best and incredibly accurate , I'm from Puerto Rico 79 percent Euro with 31 percent Italy / Greece. Great resultados bella.
Wow when did southern Italians go to the carribean? Lol
When did you figure out that the $99 US Explorer Subscription was not for your DNA kit? When did you figure out that you don't need a subscription to order a DNA kit from Ancestry to get your DNA results?
23andMe is better and legit, I trust it more than AncestryDNA just by the email notification alone lol
I found an aunt that I didn’t know I had through Ancestry!
Erin Deejana cool i was able to help a cousin i didn't know about find his dad who happened to be my mom's close cousin last year!
From what I have been told, the different results are because of the number of samples that each company might have to compare them to from the various regions, but, I might be mistaken. The difference in the Jewishness is nothing to be concerned about, seeing that the Ashkenazi Jews are those that reside in Modern Israel, having come out of the Holocaust. There are not the original Hebrews, however, they are a sect of the Jewish Race from that was dispersed by Rome. So, Italy is a country where many of these Jewish Families would have ended up, meaning do indeed have Jewish DNA. Ancestry, if you pay for the lowest cost is going to only give you the basic results and if you pay for a better upgrade you will get better results. I might have to see what 23 & Me says about me, which would make this my 3rd test. Ancestry keeps updating my results as more customers DNA tests are compared, so, it would appear that is who it works with them.
When "European Jewish" is mentioned, that's both Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewish. the latter lived in Italy and Spain, and many families went to Cuba. 23&Me doesn't have any Sephardic Jewish in their model.
6:25 you didn’t know how to pronounce it? LOL.
Wrong time stamp?
I’m excited to get my results. I’ve done the same thing, Ancestry results (process) was way quicker then 23andme, still waiting on those.
Hey Brittany, I just stumbled across your page and saw your video, it was awesome. However, I noticed your last name and that’s the same name my family originated from. My grandparent always told me that who ever had that last name was some how family of mine, and since I really don’t know my dads side that well, it wouldn’t be impossible. I just ordered a 23&me test, which is why I was looking at comparisons lol. Well, idk if you’ll see this but if you do, please reply back. I would love to talk! P.S: My family is from Cuba too!
East Asian is the same as Indian, they’re just named differently. Also if your Cuban you’re West Indian, and there is a heavy East Indian influence in the Caribbean.
They're stealing your money. You know they just sit around and laugh and say: "What should we say this one is like? Let's make her italian and Jewish, LOL."
only share your opinion when it’s based on fact or else you’re doomed to look like an idiot
@@doorsofperception9474 You certainly are an idiot so I agree with you on that.
I believe that these tests are pretty accurate, but of course not completely.
You should change your username to "My name is Idiot"
Not only is the risk of a breach very real, but consider what they're actually using your DNA for. Do you think they're just trying to reconnect people with their actual ancestry? They're conducting studies on people's DNA
Hilarious you skip African. This girl still doesn't know does she? 😂
No shot
I appreciate the creativity in this
Cool experiment, most things seem similar, but it's strange to see such disparity, maybe it's the way they designate the different ancestry?
The different priced Ancestry packages just give you access to different tools to look up family trees. It’s gives the same genetic results for all packages. Chose Ancestry because their database is used by investigative geneticists to find lost relatives. And I found out my dad was not my dad by finding a half sister.
23andme said I was.1% African and Ancestry didn't put any African in me and Ancestry changed the Spanish I had to Italian alot of times they get the two mixed up because they are both southern European DNA.
OMG!! An army of you taking over the world???
Aaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!!!!!1
OMG!! And you're a neanderthal too?
So I know I’m seeing this months after you posted it, but I thought I’d comment on the macular degeneration since many people aren’t commenting on that.
Your slight increased risk is probably because it is more common in women with a fair complexion. However, the largest risk for getting it is smoking cigarettes so if you don’t have a family history of it and don’t smoke you should be fine.
I would suggest asking a magic 8-ball. The results would be more accurate.
"more accurate"? Yeah, there is not even the tiniest bit of exaggeration in that comment./end sarcasm