Sunday, December 24, 2023

Y Chromosome I-M26 Found Again in Continental Bronze Age Italy

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 A new paper is out by Hannah Moots et al that analyzed DNA samples from several sites in the ancient Mediterranean. The authors have been s...
Sunday, October 22, 2023

Eran Elhaik Writes About the Flawed Nature of Principal Component Analyses (PCA) in Genetics, and We're Blown Away!

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We're just stumbling upon a study by brilliant geneticist Eran Elhaik, that calls into doubt a major tool used by many to achieve the ou...
Sunday, February 26, 2023

The Continued Silliness of R1b & R1a Chauvinists: Lineages were NOT Conquerors or Kings

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  We've discussed this before.  A certain chauvinism (we won't call it ethno-nationalism or racism) of online idiots who believe tha...
Thursday, September 15, 2022

What Is a Y-Chromosome Haplogroup?

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 At first glance, this may seem like a basic, tutorial post.  Like one of those you see on a genealogical DNA website, designed to help peop...
Monday, August 22, 2022

Thoughts on "POPULATION GENOMICS OF STONE AGE EURASIA" the Allentoft Paper Taking the Internet by Storm

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 A delightful new paper came out recently by Morten Allentoft et al., entitled, "POPULATION GENOMICS OF STONE AGE EURASIA".  Befor...
Sunday, August 7, 2022

Serena Aneli, Matteo Caldon, Luca Pagani, et al. Put Out Another Hairsplitting, Borderline Racist Paper on Italy: "Human Presence in Southern Europe, the Italian Case Study"

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We and others have noticed and posted about a recurring phenomenon in academic papers.  Authors, often Northern Italians, issue quibbling, h...
Thursday, December 30, 2021

Y Chromosome Haplogroup I-M26 Found Again in Prehistoric MAINLAND Italy

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 From the 2021 paper, " Ancient genomes reveal structural shifts after the arrival of Steppe-related ancestry in the Italian Peninsula ...
Friday, February 12, 2021

Ancestry.com Continues to Be Best In Class for DNA Ancestry Ethnic Composition

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I've been very kind to 23andme in the past because of it's easy-to-use interface and it's candor when it comes to disclosing the...
Sunday, December 13, 2020

Julius Caesar: Basis for the Gospels, Model for Christ?

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  I've posted before about the eerie similarities between the life of Julius Caesar and Jesus Christ .  They are too numerous to mention...
Friday, June 5, 2020

Book Review -- Mezzogiorno Mistaken: The Top 10 Myths About Southern Italians

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Readers of this blog know that we like science.  That we hate popular-culture fairy tales and stereotypes.  And that we love to correct awfu...
Sunday, September 1, 2019

R1b, the Lineage of Kings?

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Thought of the day: So many men (who coincidentally bear R1b) love to think that R1b is the lineage of kings and conquerors.  In reality, th...
Saturday, May 4, 2019

For DNA Ethnic Estimates and Heritage Calculators, Ancestry.com Just Stole the Thunder!

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Long-time readers of this blog know that we have reminded our readers that ethnic calculators or heritage estimates based on DNA tests are n...
Friday, December 14, 2018

Northern Italian Researcher Puts Out Another Study Trying to Hair Split Italy

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Europeans are not that diverse genetically.  There is less genetic diversity from Sweden to Spain than there is within any given African vil...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Media Starts to Gets Home DNA Testing for Ancestry Right -- Thank God!

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Kristen V. Brown is back with an excellent piece for Bloomberg, on home DNA testing , that is remarkably astute for a piece in the popular m...
Monday, August 6, 2018

Italy in Roman Times - The Genetics of the Ancient Romans, Part II

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Here's a great graphic that I was made aware of.  It shows Italy's ancient borders, during the Classical Era, basically the dawn of ...
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Sunday, July 15, 2018

Read This If You're Curious About Your MyHeritage Ethnicity Results And You're Italian

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MyHeritage ethnicity estimates seem to be THE WORST of all the major testing companies. We've received dozens of emails from people of...
Sunday, June 10, 2018

Ancestry DNA Issues Revised Ancestry Estimates, Finds that Germans Exist

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Judy G. Russell, the Legal Genealogist, is out with a fantastic new post on AncestryDNA's new ethnicity estimate percentages. As she w...
Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Reminder to Eurogenes and Davidski: You ARE NOT Your Y Chromosome, and Your Manhood Isn't Tied to It!

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A great study just came out that confirms what many of us have noticed.  Increasingly, instead of dude being proud of their ethnic group (an...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2018

DNA Testing for Heritage and Ancestry Is, Simply Put, Inaccurate

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You go to take a cholesterol test, and your doctor, very thorough, sends you to four different labs.  One reports your cholesterol is 200, o...
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Friday, August 18, 2017

Are Ethnicity Percentages and Ancestry Calculators from DNA Tests Accurate?

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The media has blasted headlines this week that show an incredible ignorance of DNA testing for ethnic percentages.  One, which could have be...
Friday, July 21, 2017

AND THE WINNER IS... (Comparing Admixture/Heritage Tests on Gedmatch)

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Methodology: We ran exhaustive tests of several commercial and free DNA-testing labs and ethnicity calculators.   To test the sites, we...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Will Tim Sullivan and Ancestry.com Continue Its VIRTUAL Ethnic Cleansing of Germans?

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23andme discloses right off the bat that it cannot identify German or French ancestry 92% of the time. Ancestry doesn't seem to be abl...