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The Dodecad ancestry project

Explore the Dodecad ancestry project aiming to provide detailed ancestry analysis using 23andMe raw data files.

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Dienekes Pontikos, Introducing the Dodecad ancestry project:

1) Project goals The Dodecad ancestry project has two goals: - To provide detailed ancestry analysis to individuals who have tested with 23andMe; other testing companies may be included in the future. - To build samples of individuals for regions of the world (e.g. Greeks, Finns, Albanians, Southern Italians, etc.) currently under-represented in publicly available datasets. I neither endorse nor am I affiliated with any genetic testing company. I have chosen to base the project on 23andMe results, because (i) I perceive that quite a few people have used the service, (ii) the Illumina genotyping platform it uses has substantial overlap with the publicly available datasets on which my analysis depends.

Basically some of you need to send him your 23andMe raw data files. The potential sample space of this group is going to be in the tens of thousands from what 23andMe ...

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