DNA Sequencing Megathread! Neanderthals, Denisovans and other ancient DNA!

[derspiess]

So Africans are the pure-breds and the rest of us are all mutts

That's been known for a while.  I remember coming across some Afrocentrist guy on Youtube gloating over that after it became known.  Thing is, the dude was kind of light skinned himself.

[Valmy]

Hey many people prefer mutts 

[Josquius]

So Africans are the pure-breds and the rest of us are all mutts

That's been known for a while.  I remember coming across some Afrocentrist guy on Youtube gloating over that after it became known.  Thing is, the dude was kind of light skinned himself.

its cute when people think inbreeding is a sign of superiority.

[The Brain]

So Africans are the pure-breds and the rest of us are all mutts

That's been known for a while.  I remember coming across some Afrocentrist guy on Youtube gloating over that after it became known.  Thing is, the dude was kind of light skinned himself.

its cute when people think inbreeding is a sign of superiority.

Colonels! Smite him!

[jimmy olsen]

So Africans are the pure-breds and the rest of us are all mutts

Well I think the notion that Euros are all part Neanderthals has been around awhile at least. But it looks like a couple of our other hominid cousins got in on that action.

No, DNA analysis of modern African populations make it clear that there was introgression between deeply diverged African populations, but it is unlikely we'll find direct evidence of it since DNA doesn't preserve well in those environments.

Certainly the fossil record in Africa is extremely diverse.

[Josquius]

After months it seems My Heritage finally processed my 23 and Me results.

It looks rather different.
My Japanese fluke is gone
I get:

English people (aww. No divisions )
59.1%
Irish, Scot and Welsh  (as one category? huh?)
20.8%
Scandinavian
8.6%
Finnish (blimey)
3.4%
Eastern Europeans (...well....beats French)
8.1%

Curious to see something Eastern in there....Nothing known from that direction in family history.

[Valmy]

Byzantine refugees 

(...well....beats French)

That was already covered by the English part

[dps]

You've got Scandinavian ancestors.  Those Vikings went just about everywhere, so something from eastern Europe isn't really that unlikely.

[11B4V]

'Holy Grail' fossil mystery cracked – 558 million-year-old fat reveals earliest known animal

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/09/21/holy-grail-fossil-mystery-cracked-558-million-year-old-fat-reveals-earliest-known-animal.html

[Razgovory]

'Holy Grail' fossil mystery cracked – 558 million-year-old fat reveals earliest known animal

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/09/21/holy-grail-fossil-mystery-cracked-558-million-year-old-fat-reveals-earliest-known-animal.html

Nice try, but this is a DNA sequencing megathread, NOT the cholesteroids detection megathread.

[crazy canuck]

Interesting to compare and contrast the Fox and CNN writing styles and vocabulary.
 
The Fox news site:

It might not have been Indiana Jones who found it, but the "Holy Grail" (of fossils) has been discovered.

CNN

The oldest known animal in the geological record has been identified, in a discovery that scientists are calling "the Holy Grail of palaeontology."

I also note the CNN writer used the correct spelling of palaeontology

[derspiess]

So my Ancestry DNA results have been updated to:

England, Wales & Northwestern Europe - 76%
Ireland and Scotland - 23%
Finland - 1%

They took away that puzzling 5% Iberian and those random "low confidence regions".

[Caliga]

Mine were updated a while back and I lost all that weird Mediterranean shit too.  Now I've just got English, Irish/Scottish, and German, basically.

[Valmy]

Finland - 1%

Finno-Ugric? That would be odd. Nordic I would get considering all the pillaging and settling and breeding they did in Britain.

[Tamas]

This whole thing is entirely silly. It doesn't sound accurate at all, you have exactly zero way of knowing whether they just make shit up, and now some people have your DNA sample.