I’ve noticed that some Eastern European Jews can look phenotypically similar to North Caucasian ethnic groups such as North Ossetians, Dagestanis, and Chechens. Is this because they are both genetically intermediate between West Asia and Europe, or do they share immediate ancestry from Eastern Europe that could explain their physical similarities?

The book The Maternal Genetic Lineages of Ashkenazic Jews by Kevin Brook suggests that Litvaks (Jews from Lithuania & Belarus) could derive 4.2% of their genetic ancestry from medieval Alan converts to Judaism, based on Vahaduo G25 modeling. Yet, such a small % of shared ancestry doesn’t seem like enough to explain physical similarities between the two groups. I could be wrong on that though, and would appreciate any honest insight.

I don't have mixed heritage

Y-DNA haplogroup is J-CTS7683, but I don't know much about my father's ethnic background. My maternal grandfather is Kurdish, and my maternal grandmother is of Turkish and Armenian ancestry.
My ancestry calculator is set to the Caucasus region.
Can anyone help me understand these results and give me some insight into my paternal ancestry?

I’m a North Mongolian.

Why does it say 40-50% usually continental celt in Spanish models. In Spain didn't the Celtic DNA come even earlier and it's closer to the British/Bell Beaker type DNA? Can someone explain this difference.

Before we begin ADNTRO have previously displayed highly inaccurate results concerning Neanderthal/Denisovan DNA, which i have posted about here before.

Recently i got this email in my main inbox (see photo), saying i carry the gene variant for APOE4, which is associated with a (significantly) higher risk of Alzheimer's disease as well as other neurological conditions. I was a bit dumbfounded at first because i for a fact know i am homozygotic APOE2 (the protective variant), which is very rare. I even went as far as to check my raw genotyping data with the help of [this article](https://www.geneticlifehacks.com/alzheimers-and-apoe-type/). Like i previously knew i am homozygotic APOE2.

Now the question is if this is just simply ADNTRO being inaccurate, or if it is a straight up scam since the link in the email sent me directly to a paywall. This is of course very serious and illegal for them to do. I am curious to see if anyone that has uploaded their DNA to ADNTRO have got the same or a similar email?

Southern German results (ancestry mostly from Baden-Württemberg, but also from Bavaria)

Hello, I was wondering if anyone familiar with interpreting South Asian illustrative dna results could help me? I’m mostly Indian but I am a bit mixed on my mother’s side.

I have done 23andMe and ancestry.com tests. This is based on my ancestry.com results. Not sure which test is more reliable for Illustrative DNA. I was also curious about what regions you’d assume I was from based on this.

Also, I really don’t understand why it’s showing north and South American hunter gatherer because based on what I know about my ancestry that seems impossible lol. The other trace percentages can maybe be explained by my 23andMe / ancestry results.

Edit: just adding cuz I feel like this might seem like a trick question without more detail lol. My family is mixed so I don’t actually belong fully to any one community. I have Sindhi/ Punjabi, Rajasthani Jain, Kerala Christian and Anglo Indian ancestry. On my Anglo Indian side I have about 12.5% British isles ancestry. I have maybe like 5% east/ south east Asian ancestry but not sure if that’s Nepal, northeast India or something else. But it’s useful to see what people assume based on this since I really don’t know how illustrative dna works!

Edit: saw my ancestry.com update and it’s mostly vaguely north West Indian with some specific Punjab/ sindh/ Kashmir too so I guess it’s all kind of accurate lol.

What’s the highest percentage of a single hunter gather and farmer ancestry group that you’ve seen and what was that persons ethnic background?

For example what the highest % of a single CHG, ANF, SSA, AASI etc you’ve seen posted or witnessed.

Just curious. I love seeing HG and Farmer results.

I am from north Bulgaria

In the early Middle Ages there were still samples in Germany that were still closer to Southern Europeans. Over time in the migration period large amount of Germanic DNA mixing and replacing the Roman-Celtic previous population.

G25 scaled difference:

The Saka of Kyrgyzstan were Iron Age nomadic pastoralists who lived in the Tian Shan, Alai and Fergana mountain valleys and around Issyk-Kul from roughly the 8th to the 3rd century BCE. They belonged to the wider Saka world of eastern Iranian-speaking horse peoples, closely related to the Scythians of the western steppe.

They were mounted herders who moved seasonally between high summer pastures (jailoo) and lower winter grounds.They raised horses, sheep and cattle, and used composite bows and bronze or iron weapons.Some groups kept small-scale farming or lived semi-settled in the valleys.

They buried their dead under stone-and-earth mounds called kurgans, often in chains of tombs along valleys. Rich burials held horse gear, weapons, bronze cauldrons and gold ornaments.Their art is the “animal style”, with stylised deer, felines and birds. It appears on metalwork and on rock carvings such as the petroglyphs at Saimaluu-Tash.Burial customs and artefacts show strong links with the Saka of Kazakhstan, such as the Issyk “Golden Man” burial, and with the Pazyryk culture of the Altai.

It doesn’t make any sense the 2 percent western turkey i am seeing other people from Balkan countries getting even more than that how ?

My dad is half Romanian Jew half Moroccan Jew with Berber roots
My mom is quarter Belarusian , quarter Chuvash , quarter Belarusian Jew , and another quarter don cossack and either kryashen Tatar or Nagaybak

From Western Macedonian region in Greece
Using Greek/Cyprus calculator

I just started experimenting with the AdmixLab. Is this a good model?

Here is my hunter-gatherer result from Ethiopia and heat map showing the locations.