Genographic results from the UK

The first results from Geno 2.0, the new DNA test from the Genographic Project, are now starting to appear. A genetic genealogy friend in the UK has very kindly agreed to share screenshots of his results with me for publication on this blog. One of his parents is English and the other is from the Philippines so he has some very interesting results. Each participant is a given a very cool infographic summarising their results which they can share with their friends.

These are the pages which tell the personal genetic story of the participant.

The two reference populations with which this participant most closely matches are Vietnam and Romania. These seem rather odd selections and don't match his documented ancestry from England and the Philippines, but perhaps there are insufficient reference populations in the database to give accurate matches. 

This close up provides details of the British reference population used by the Genographic Project.

A fun part of the test is that you are told your percentages of Neanderthal and Denisovan ancestry.

For the Y-DNA results you get a nice map showing the migratory path of the different branches of the Y-DNA tree. This is the map showing the path of  U106, one of the major branches of the R1b tree.

We can then follow the journey of U198, one of the subclades of U106.

This rather nice heat map shows the distribution of U198, which appears to be found almost exclusively in the British Isles and north-western France. It would be helpful to have the references that were used to compile the map. Perhaps that information will be added later.

For the mitochondrial DNA there is a description of the haplogroup, which in this case is haplogroup F, reflecting the participant's maternal ancestry from the Philippines.

There is a map showing the migratory path of haplogroup F. 

 There is also a heat map showing the places where haplogroup F is mostly found, though again it would be useful to have a list of the sources used.

Genographic results can be transferred free of charge to the Family Tree DNA database. CeCe Moore has blogged about her own results and has also included detailed instructions on the process of transferring results to FTDNA. We will no doubt learn much more as people test and contribute their results to research. Genographic results will be updated on a regular basis as more results are received and more reference populations are added to the database. For further information on the Genographic Project visit the Genographic website.

Websites

U106 project website at Family Tree DNA

U198 project website at Family Tree DNA