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A Puerto Rican Look at: 23andme’s New African Groups

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Recently, an email was sent out informing its members that there had been another update on 23andme. I was pleasantly surprised, especially since this had to do with genetic groups in Africa! I was excited to see if any of my own DNA (or that of my family) would be categorized into new African groups, […]

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A Puerto Rican Look at: Generational 23andMe African Ancestry

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This blog post will be an updated report on my African ancestry from 23andMe. Last month I had posted about some of my new European Ancestry reports from 23andMe while last year I wrote about my generational African mixes from AncestryDNA (which I’ll have to update at some point as well!). Since 23andme has updated their African scores

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A Puerto Rican Look at: Ancestry Composition

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This week, after much anticipation and excitement the new version of 23andme‘s Ancestry Painting was released! This new version, which replaced Ancestry Painting, is now known as Ancestry Composition. Ancestry Painting lacked populations which only used three main populations Asian (from China/Japan), European (which I think were US-European samples), and then African (using Yoruba samples

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