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My Dodecad results

Explore the Dodecad project and uncover your unique genetic ancestry, including East Asian admixture and South Asian roots.

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A few days ago Dienekes opened up the Dodecad project to a wider range of Eurasians. I decided to send my 23andMe sample to Dienekes ASAP, and the results came back today. I'm DOD075. Dienekes also just put up an explanation of the 10 ancestral components he's generating from ADMIXTURE (along with tree-like representations of their distances). Below I've placed myself in the more local context of populations to which I'm close to:

Here are all the populations. Karnataka is a state in northwest South India, and can be taken as somewhat representative of the Dravidian populations. The purple component is a South Asia distinctive element. Using the terminology of Reich et al. it would be the ancient stabilized hybrid population which came out of the admixture of Ancient North Indians (ANI) and Ancient South Indians (ASI). On the margins I assume there's just noise popping out; e.g., the "East ...

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