Have you seen the new autosomal admixture focused on Great Britain?

Question

Here is a map showing what areas of Great Britain my autosomal DNA most closely matches:

https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Space:Autosomal_DNA_Admixture_of_Peter_J._Roberts&public=1

For the full sized image, click on the link above, then click on the map, and then click on the link for "[click here to see the full-size original image] "

This was part of my report I received today from LivingDNA which uses research from the People of the British Isles project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_of_the_British_Isles which identified 17 population clusters https://blog.wellcome.ac.uk/2015/03/20/image-of-the-week-genetic-map-of-the-british-isles/

I find this type of information very interesting but I don't believe it will be useful for genealogy until LivingDNA introduces a chromosome browser showing segment matching and chromosome painting.

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That is next on my list of tests to take.

Answer 1

Is there a way to run my dna against this standard?  It is autosomal dna.

I did not see a link to run it.  Neat map!

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There is currently no way to run auDNA results (from AncestryDNA, 23andMe, and Family Finder) with the population samples from the research.  If the research was publicly funded then I would expect those samples would be publicly available.  I also don't know how many SNPs tested by LivingDNA are and are not in common with those from the labs above.

LivingDNA does have a link to download your raw DNA.

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Thanks!  I will look to see if they have some way of working with FTDNA autosomal which is what I have right now.

Answer 2

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The People of the British Isles (PoBI) project was initiated by Sir Walter Bodmer in 2004, in an effort to create the first ever detailed genetic map of a country. The United Kingdom’s history bristles with immigrations, wars and invasions, so the PoBI researchers faced a tremendous task in investigating how past events impacted the genetic makeup of modern British people.

We recruited volunteers whose four grandparents were born in rural areas of Britain, within 50 miles from one another. We collected blood samples as a source of DNA for our genetic studies. Since our DNA is really a mixture of our ancestors’ DNA we could use it to look back in time and study the ancestry over centuries past. A subset of our samples (2039) was extensively analysed, and the groundbreaking results were published in Nature on the 19^th of March 2015 (see Population Genetics). Results included a map (image below) showing a remarkable concordance between genetic and geographical clustering of our samples across the United Kingdom. The analyses were developed even further and showed relationships of the UK genetic clusters to the genetics of surrounding European groups (see Population Genetics for detailed information).

https://www.peopleofthebritishisles.org/home