In this thread i educate poltards on genetic issues

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Since most of you don't know anything or half of genetics and how to interpret them, i'm going to educate you, for free

Now your first and most common mistake is
>Haplogroups=Ethnicity/Race
No, haplogroups (Y-DNA and MTDna) don't tell you anything about your ethnicity. it just tells you who was your oldest male ancestor and female ancestor.
Take this pic as an example, you see J2 haplogroup, it's almost everywhere. From East Turkestan to Italy, many people have it, but would you actually say Uyghurs are same as Italians? You would not.
>What are we supposed to look at?
Autosomal DNA. If you need more detailed interpretation of your DNA, then i suggest you to look at Gedmatch and Eurogenes K15, Oracle etc. Gedmatch gives you more detailed version of your autosomal dna meanwhile Eurogenes K15 tells you which populations you're close and what population mixes are close to your current genes. It's really useful.

>What websites do you suggest
stay away from 23andme. it's utter shit.
myorigins is nice but it's meh.

>Does your phenotype 100% tell you who are you
yes and no. yes because your genetic admixture makes up your phenotype, no because your phenotype don't always convey your ancestors' genes. Your uncle and father would totally look different in terms of phenotype.

any more questions?