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wishstar

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7. Ancestry's basic result has a European Jewish ancestry percentage
Wed May 11, 2016, 10:27 AM
May 2016

In my results, Ancestry . com listed European Jewish ancestry as a trace amount of 2% and Eastern European as a trace amount of 2%. Which is probable since I have found one line of possible distant Jewish ancestry from Poland. They just have one basic set of percentage results though, no tools for further analysis.

However the free Gedmatch website where I uploaded my Ancestry DNA has several options for analysis including a J test which also showed a trace of Jewish ancestry for me. Gedmatch and Ancestry were quite close in their analyses of all of my percentages but Gedmatch has a lot of additional analysis tools you can run, whereas Ancestry just provides one basic breakdown.

If you are interested in DNA health factors without spending much $, I also highly recommend Promethease. Just last week I uploaded my Ancestry DNA to the Promethease website where for a $5 fee they provided detailed results of my specific SNP's matching with scientific research findings of health factors. My results were fascinating and very educational with links to articles detailing research studies into the various SNP markers they detected in my DNA. At first I was bummed out at the "Bad" genes they found but in context I had only about 250 "Bad" ones compared to 1680 they consider "Good' genes. Promethease has good search capacity, seems very professional while easy to navigate.

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