Recently, there was an update on 23andMe in regards to Asian DNA and the division in Ancestry Composition. For many of us in the New World, this means a division in the category of “Indigenous American” and “East Asian”. Though this might not seem like a big update, by 23andMe dedicating more attention to these areas, numbers will become more smoothed out in the long run.
Below you can see the difference between my results and those of my little brother. Since my little brother tested more recently on a newer chip, his results were updated rather quickly, I am not sure if my results however will be updated as I took the test about 10 years ago on a completely different chip. If my results do change, I wonder if I stay at roughly 13% or lose (or gain?) some DNA along the way.
Notice below that my brother has no Japanese, Korean, Siberia, etc. DNA – it just shows “Indigenous America” which makes total sense knowing our genealogical history.