okarinaofsteiner's East Eurasian megathread [reposts]

[okarinaofsteiner]

http://web.archive.org/web/2021082502053...verdue_im/

u/caspears on this (I think Hunan?) adoptee who scored 58% pre-update Chinese and 42% Dai

My wife is Canto, both sides of her family come from the Pearl River Delta area, and she has like 10% Dai, 10% Viet, which is not strange at all...that entire area was controlled by ancient "Tai" speaking peoples, and at one time was held by Viet related peoples as well. Some even argue that Cantonese has a "Tai" substrata to the language

That being being said your numbers are very high, one of your parents was either Tai(Dai) or an ethnic minority closely related to them like Zhuang.

Haplogroup M is not unknown in Han people, in fact it is scattered as far as Japan, and down into Southeast Asia - it is quite old, without knowing subclade, it won't be very helpful, even then...how Guangdong was initially populated was by Han Chinese male soldiers who "took" local "wives", and raised the kids as Han. Overtime more Chinese migrated south due to wars in the north or to get more land.

So many people in Southern China have the same MTDNA haplogroups as the minority groups around them (and people in Northern Southeast Asia)...

[okarinaofsteiner]

https://np.reddit.com/r/23andme/comments...s_23andme/  (alt link)

I just got my results from 23andMe today, and I was surprised to see that I’m 98.5% Filipino and Austronesian (mainly Visayan) with small traces of Melanesian, Arab, Southern Indian, and even Cypriot ancestry.
Growing up, I was always told I had Chinese heritage. My great grandfather, my grandmother’s father, was from Fujian in southern China. He migrated to the Philippines and married my great-grandmother, who was a native Visayan Filipina. Based on that, my grandmother would technically be half Chinese and half Filipino, right? Then she had my dad, who would be about 1/4th Chinese, and I would be around 1/8th Chinese. So naturally, I was expecting some Chinese ancestry to show up in my DNA, but it didn’t. Even my dad was surprised too
Which leaves me to ask: how accurate is 23andMe when it comes to detecting ancestry?

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