Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Goldfoot has East-Asian Ancestry
Nadene Goldfoot
I have a mother who converted to Judaism whose mother was born in Sweden and father who was an American Yankee with distant roots going back to the ship after the Mayflower of 1620 from England or Wales.
I have a father whose parents were Ashkenazi Jews from Lithuania and Poland. I have tested with Family Tree DNA and find I have 3% of my DNA from Asia Minor, meaning Turkey and the area of Georgia and Azerbaijan. By testing with GedMatch.com, I find my East Asian genes amount to 0.41%. Of that, the break-down is Western Mediterranean-11.55%, Eastern Mediterranean-9.78%, Western Asian-2.89%, Middle Eastern-5.18%, South Asian-0.67% and East Asian-0.67%.
Simply put, I have 49% European, 48% Jewish Diaspora and 3% Middle Eastern. It is that Middle Eastern that I figure is from my Jewish side of Goldfoot and Jermulowske genes, but perhaps not. Out of my European ancestry, 36% comes from Scandinavia; 8% come from Southern Europe and 5% comes from Eastern Europe. My 4 grandparents; the Swede, Yankee, Lithuanian and Lithuanian/Poland would have given me each 25% of my genes.
Then I have found that about 1/3 of Caucasians taking the DNA test show some level of East-Asian ancestry and being Jews make up only 0.02% of the world population, they can't all be Jewish! This East Asian ancestry is a different thing all together. Some Norwegians are of significant East Asian ancestry because there is an admixture with the Lapps (Sammi) who came to Scandinavia from northern Asia and who share a common heritage with Asian Indians, Northern Chinese, Japanese, Ainu and even American Indians. I'm guessing now, but I bet its from the Q Y haplogroup (carried by men). This is interesting. My Swedish grandfather could have Q haplogroup genes and my father's DNA shows he IS Q1b1a or Q-Y 2200.
There are other groups of people with significant East Asian ancestry that may have contributed to my family tree that include migrations/invasions of nomads through Russia as well as other portions of Eastern Europe and are thought to have brought East Asian gene sequences to Europe. That would show my Jewish heritage of Lithuania and Poland were part of Russia at one time. Other migrations may not be known at this time and may have an affect on scores!
About half of the South Asian Indians tested have significant East Asian ancestry, though you would never know by appearance. Just because some of my relatives were born in Europe doesn't mean they were all 100% Indo-European. European boundaries are political, not biological like the DNA test, and immigration/emigration between Europe and the rest of the world has been happening for thousands of years.
Other researchers at Yale and Stanford have shown considerable East Asian admixture in Eastern European, Russian and Northern European populations. The Indo-European group covers the populations from Europe to India, including the Middle East. They are actually fairly similar genetically. People from these regions often generate similar admixture results. The further East from Europe a sample originates from, the lower the Indo-European score. In all the samples tested so far, including samples from the South of India, have Indo-European as the major group in the admix test.
Secondly, these populations are part of a language group termed Indo-European and this is where FTDNA took the label describing this group. What that means is the languages spoken by modern day populations of these regions are descended from a common root language. Put together the genetic data and the linguistic anthropological data and it makes sense that they should be grouped together in the test.
My mother's nephew was tested. His father was my mother's brother. His mother had German heritage. He is an R1b1a2a1a1b4 Y haplogroup. On FTDNA, Ken's makeup was 98% European and out of that, 51% came from Scandinavia, 23% came from the British Isles, 23% came from Western and Central Europe, and 1% came from Finland and Northern Siberia! On GedMatch.com, his East Asian amounts to 0.28%., and Western Mediterranean is 16.78%. Western Asian is 4.09%. Eastern Mediterranean is 2.14%, Red Sea is 0.59%, south Asian is 0.73% and Amerindian is 1.55%. On the R1b haplogroup, the first allele on the test is # 393 which is a 12 and not the usual 13. I believe this denotes more eastern heritage. It's not a common result with R1bs.
Resource: http://www.familytreedna.com/faqdnaprint.html.
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| Mom's Dad on left, born in Illinois |
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| Mom's Mom from Sweden |
I have a father whose parents were Ashkenazi Jews from Lithuania and Poland. I have tested with Family Tree DNA and find I have 3% of my DNA from Asia Minor, meaning Turkey and the area of Georgia and Azerbaijan. By testing with GedMatch.com, I find my East Asian genes amount to 0.41%. Of that, the break-down is Western Mediterranean-11.55%, Eastern Mediterranean-9.78%, Western Asian-2.89%, Middle Eastern-5.18%, South Asian-0.67% and East Asian-0.67%.
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| My Mother |
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| Dad's Father |
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| Dad's Mother |
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| Myself with my Dad |
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| Me, Nadene Goldfoot |
Simply put, I have 49% European, 48% Jewish Diaspora and 3% Middle Eastern. It is that Middle Eastern that I figure is from my Jewish side of Goldfoot and Jermulowske genes, but perhaps not. Out of my European ancestry, 36% comes from Scandinavia; 8% come from Southern Europe and 5% comes from Eastern Europe. My 4 grandparents; the Swede, Yankee, Lithuanian and Lithuanian/Poland would have given me each 25% of my genes.
Then I have found that about 1/3 of Caucasians taking the DNA test show some level of East-Asian ancestry and being Jews make up only 0.02% of the world population, they can't all be Jewish! This East Asian ancestry is a different thing all together. Some Norwegians are of significant East Asian ancestry because there is an admixture with the Lapps (Sammi) who came to Scandinavia from northern Asia and who share a common heritage with Asian Indians, Northern Chinese, Japanese, Ainu and even American Indians. I'm guessing now, but I bet its from the Q Y haplogroup (carried by men). This is interesting. My Swedish grandfather could have Q haplogroup genes and my father's DNA shows he IS Q1b1a or Q-Y 2200.
There are other groups of people with significant East Asian ancestry that may have contributed to my family tree that include migrations/invasions of nomads through Russia as well as other portions of Eastern Europe and are thought to have brought East Asian gene sequences to Europe. That would show my Jewish heritage of Lithuania and Poland were part of Russia at one time. Other migrations may not be known at this time and may have an affect on scores!
About half of the South Asian Indians tested have significant East Asian ancestry, though you would never know by appearance. Just because some of my relatives were born in Europe doesn't mean they were all 100% Indo-European. European boundaries are political, not biological like the DNA test, and immigration/emigration between Europe and the rest of the world has been happening for thousands of years.
Other researchers at Yale and Stanford have shown considerable East Asian admixture in Eastern European, Russian and Northern European populations. The Indo-European group covers the populations from Europe to India, including the Middle East. They are actually fairly similar genetically. People from these regions often generate similar admixture results. The further East from Europe a sample originates from, the lower the Indo-European score. In all the samples tested so far, including samples from the South of India, have Indo-European as the major group in the admix test.
Secondly, these populations are part of a language group termed Indo-European and this is where FTDNA took the label describing this group. What that means is the languages spoken by modern day populations of these regions are descended from a common root language. Put together the genetic data and the linguistic anthropological data and it makes sense that they should be grouped together in the test.
My mother's nephew was tested. His father was my mother's brother. His mother had German heritage. He is an R1b1a2a1a1b4 Y haplogroup. On FTDNA, Ken's makeup was 98% European and out of that, 51% came from Scandinavia, 23% came from the British Isles, 23% came from Western and Central Europe, and 1% came from Finland and Northern Siberia! On GedMatch.com, his East Asian amounts to 0.28%., and Western Mediterranean is 16.78%. Western Asian is 4.09%. Eastern Mediterranean is 2.14%, Red Sea is 0.59%, south Asian is 0.73% and Amerindian is 1.55%. On the R1b haplogroup, the first allele on the test is # 393 which is a 12 and not the usual 13. I believe this denotes more eastern heritage. It's not a common result with R1bs.
Resource: http://www.familytreedna.com/faqdnaprint.html.
Labels: dna, East Asia, ftdna, GedMatch, Jewish, Russia, Scandinavia
