As much fun as I have had posting and reading about other people's Geno 2.0 results in the last couple of weeks, I have to admit, there's nothing quite like getting my own (finally)!
OVER THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND SOLD
According to the "infographic" below, I am one of
559,515 Genographic Project participants. (You can access this individualized image through the yellow "Share" button on the top right of the "Your Story" page.)
There were 524,384 participants from Geno 1.0, so judging from this, there are now 35,131 new Geno 2.0 participants. That is certainly a lot and we don't even know if that is the number of kits sold to date or just the number of results being returned now. This means at least
35,131 kits have sold since
Geno 2.0's introduction in July of this year. (Pretty awesome!)
MY STORY
MY MATERNAL LINE
My Geno 2.0 mitochondrial DNA haplogroup is U5b1b2 which is consistent
with
23andMe's and
mtDNA Community's label for me, while my
full mitochondrial sequence at
Family Tree DNA designates me as mtDNA Haplogroup U5b1.
If you click on the arrows on your map, you will be walked step by step through the migration pattern of your direct maternal line ancestors, ending with a heatmap of the frequency of your subclade (if available). Of course, being female, I don't have a Y-chromosome to explore, but as part of their results, males also receive their Y-DNA haplogroup subclade (terminal SNP), direct paternal line's migration route and heatmap.
The next step that is recommended by National Geographic is to "Complete Your Profile" and "Contribute Your Story". These can be accessed through the
Profile tab and the
Our Story tab respectively, but for the first to be accessible, you need to opt into
research participation under Profile > Account Settings. The default is "You are currently not
participating", but if you check the box below and click on save...
...it changes to this:
Then, under
Profile, go to "About Me", "About My Family" and "About My Ethnicity" and fill in the pertinent details.
Next, go to the
Our Story tab at the top and you will see this:
If you scroll down below this, you will find this window, where you should enter information about your direct maternal ancestral line. This story should only include information on your mother's mother's mother's (etc...) line. Here's mine:
To see your story and the others that have been contributed, click on the "Read Stories" button on the opposite window under "Browse All Stories".
These are the other participants whose mtDNA haplogroup is U5b and have contributed their stories so far. There aren't very many people tested with mtDNA like mine yet as you can see from the "Universe" graphic above (the big blue circle with the red-orange center). The five dots are people whose mtDNA is most similar to mine.
Just for fun, here is peek at a few of the public Y-DNA stories. See anything interesting?
WHO AM I: AUTOSOMAL DNA AND ADMIXTURE
Next, let's take a look at my autosomal admixture results.
According to this, my admixture includes:
45% Northern European
35% Mediterranean
15% Southwest Asian
2% Northeast Asian
Which places me closest to...
Pretty cool since I am 25% Finnish, which as far as I know, is my biggest chunk of ancestry from any single area. My percentages don't match up exactly by any means. My Mediterranean component is significantly higher and my Northeast Asian component is lower than the typical Finn. The description for this latter component notes "... it is also found at a frequency of 5-10% in the Finns,
likely introduced by the migrations of the Saami people from Siberia
into Finland over the past 5,000 years." Since only one quarter of my ancestry comes from Finland, this discrepancy makes sense.
But, wait, hold on...
Iberian?! I don't have any known Iberian ancestry. Anyway, it doesn't look to me like I match it all that closely anyway. (For details on how they reach these conclusions, read my earlier
post.)
I'm not sure that this method of trying to match all of a person's ancestry to one population label works well for very admixed individuals like me. My individual components may appear to fit best with these two populations when taken as a whole, but this doesn't account for the mixed ancestry I have from multiple regions.
HOMINID DNA
This part of the test is definitely intriguing although I don't really know what to make of it.
The Neanderthal percentage is very close to my 23andMe Neanderthal result of 2.5%. The Denisovan seems on the higher end compared to other results I have seen, but investigating that will have to wait for another day.
EXPERT OPTIONS: TRANSFERRING AND DOWNLOADING
There seems to be much confusion regarding downloading the raw data file and transferring the results to
Family Tree DNA, so I thought I would review the Expert Options section.
To transfer your results to
Family Tree DNA, go to the Profile tab and then Expert Options:
Click on "Transfer to FTDNA":
Check the option for Geno 2.0 and enter your NatGeo Kit Number (found on your box and/or Profile> Account Settings> Geno 2.0 ID Code, where you have previously entered it to register). Then, check the box if you have a Family Tree DNA kit and enter your kit number and password as above. Click on "Next". On the next screen, you will be prompted to enter your address and it will look like you are going to be charged, but choose "Invoice" (instead of Credit Card) and keep going. Then, you will receive a screen to review that will show a cost of $0. Place the order and, if successful, you should get this:
and this:
If you aren't sure if it worked, check your home page for this:
So far my account results don't show anything different, but I already have the mtDNA full sequence, so I'm not sure what would be imported anyway. Many of the men importing their results are getting an extensive list of Y-SNPs on their Haplotree page like this:
Although importing Geno 2.0 results doesn't delete the results from the SNP testing that was previously performed at FTDNA, it will override what appears on the project pages.
Apparently, there is a delay for some accounts receiving the raw data download option and so far, mine hasn't appeared yet. When it does, it will be located under the "Expert Options" tab, just above the "Transfer Data to Family Tree DNA" option and look like this:
It is downloaded into a CSV file after clicking on the Download button.
I was hoping to be able to check my raw data file to see how my mtDNA heteroplasmy was reported, but apparently that will have to wait for another time.
LOTS MORE TO COME...
Obviously, I don't have my own Y-DNA results to review, but I have been reading all of the reports from our citizen scientists
who are already immersed in investigating those newly released results. I will be
sure to report on their findings since this will, undoubtedly, be the area of the most groundbreaking discoveries.
In my next post, I will compare and review my admixture results from all four companies.
[Disclosure: I received a complimentary Geno 2.0 kit from National Geographic for review purposes. This has not affected my opinions or analysis.]
