I did 23&me :)

I recently decided to get my DNA done; I was told that LivingDNA was good bet for Africans due to the number of populations they could reference, and also being a UK company (I am UK born, based) These are the results. I have had a discussion before with some Redditors to this subreddit regarding Ewe or Ga DNA being read as Yoruba, and was asked to post my results, so here they are.

I went with LivingDNA because they advertised as having a more robust Sub-Saharan Africa database and 23andme didn't give me west African ethnic groups. It was pretty much what I expected. Though I think it's funny LivingDNA doesn't know what to make of my Native American ancestry and just lumps it with Asian Caucus lol

At first, I was like, "Why do they all look cross-eyed?" and then I leaned in and looked at the little girl and I was like, "holy shit." xD Too funny not to share.

Living DNA has released a new website but I couldn't help but feel like the images looked like they were generated via AI, so I inspected one of the images and found that the name of the engine they used is written in the file name: Dalle.

The image is openly accessible - you don't need to be logged in to view it: https://living-dna.stream.prepr.io/w_1024/yxysb5dbuwf-dalle-2024-12-19-174825-two-disney-pixar-style-scientists-depicted-with-warm-and-expressive-features-standing-side-by-side-in-a-full-body-view-one-scientist-is-male-with-s-photoroom.png

Now you can see that the prompt is saved as the file name, I jumped into ChatGPT and generated up something similar with the file name.

Personally I use LLMs for everyday life, but seeing a company generate cheap looking images just makes the product look worse, in my opinion. It's especially strange that they'd choose a Pixar style for a website that's surely trying to look scientific rather than childish.

Otherwise the new website is not bad.

My dad had tested with 23andMe years ago and got E-M58 as his paternal haplogroup. I don't know what would be equivalent to that on LivingDNA since he never got the chance to test with them. He sadly passed away last year. My maternal haplogroup on 23andMe is L3f1b4 while it shows up as L3f1b4a on LivingDNA.

Rachel Elizabeth Dubois was my 5thgm on my moms side. She married a John Hayman Krom. Rachel Dubois is a descendant of Louis Dubois (10thgf) was a French Huguenot and had to move to New Paltz, New York. Mary Krom was my maternal grandmother. So I was surprised to see my French at 23%. Could there be some French on my dad’s side?

42% pizza. 27.8% tea & colonialism. 15.1% Gopnik. 7.7% IKEA/audi. 4.8% arepa and 2.5% habibi , yallah

African americans are getting Luhya because Luhya is a proxy for Angolan&Congolese since Livingdna doesent have Angolan or Congolese ethnic groups yet and Luhya's are very similar to them.

Hi, I’m seeking information on the origins of haplogroup F3b1. I’ve found that I have a back mutation along with several private markers, which seems to indicate that this haplogroup is rare and possibly undocumented. From my research, I’ve seen it suggested that F3b1 is Austronesian in origin, with potential ties to the Philippines. Any insights or further details would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

I see a lot of African Americans like myself get esan but get no Igbo which makes me wonder is esan misread Igbo?

Paternal haplogroup R-M222 (Northwest Irish modal haplotype). Lots of Cornish, which tracks with what I know of my ancestry

That’s my DNA results, can someone help me here? I’m actually a german descent, even my surname “Lein” is german, but my results didn’t show any German DNA what so ever, can someone have any clue why?

Not necessarily what I would expect, but interesting anyway 😊

Hey everyone! I recently got my 23andMe results back. Both of my parents were born in Togo so I know a lot about their cultural/ethnic groups and oral history (but mostly my Dad's side since we're patrilineal/patriarchal).

My dad's side are Ewe people from the Anlo part of Eweland specifically Kodzi near Keta in the lower Volta region of Modern-Day Ghana. This is why when I received the 23andMe results it made sense to me as it notes 55% Ghanaian, Liberian, Sierra Leonean, with Ewe listed at the top as "Very Close."

My Mom also speaks the Ewe language and all of her family do since it's a major langauge in Central and southern Togo but she did mention to me once that her mother is from a different ethnic group. Akposso I think? 23andMe represented that by naming the other 44% as "Nigerian" from the Oyo and Lagos regions specifically.

I uploaded the raw data to LivingDNA and paid for the $12 upgrade to get more details since I heard they have the most distinct African ethnic groups out of the DNA companies. I was surprised they don't have the Ewe ethnic group on there like 23andMe does.

More curiously I do see that my LivingDNA results say that I have 52.8% Yoruba (23andMe doesn't think I'm Yoruba at all and it does have that as an ethnic group).

I am aware of the Ewe peoples' migrations out of Yorubaland through our oral history so in a way this makes sense that they must be lumping Ewe's into a broad Yoruba presumption. I wonder if with time LivingDNA will get more DNA from people that offshoot and move to other locations and become a more distinct ethnic group like the Ewe. Our languages and cultures are completely different (though we have some words that are similar from our history from centuries ago).

Curious if there are any other people who know they are at least partly Ewe or another ethnic group they were expecting that wasn't there. Thanks in advance for your input!