Okay so: the percentages you see here only show you how much/which parts of your heritage are represented in your DNA. The further you get down a family line, the less likely a person will have the original ethnicity represented in their DNA. I can't explain it well, but basically how genetics works is that you randomly inherit part of each parents DNA. Because your mom is all asian, you can only inherit asian DNA from her. But because your dad has ancestry all over Europe, you inherit a random selection of his DNA. So not all of your heritage will be visible in your DNA since you don't inherit all of your dads DNA. So theres a random chance you didn't inherit parts of your dads Italianness. The percentages or fractions we use to describe our heritage only describe our heritage, but not the actual ethnicities that make up our DNA.
You are correct. If someone’s father is Chinese and Irish, they would inherit about half of their genes from their father, but they may not show 25% of their genes as Chinese and 25% of their genes as Irish. The contribution of a grandparent to your DNA can be higher or lower than expected. There’s also another factor: DNA tests sample a relatively small number of genes. The sample sizes for some populations may not be that big, so the test may not be the good at linking you to a given population. I find that over time I see subregions suggested by 23andme appearing and disappearing. This is because they are increasing the number of samples as well as tinkering with their algorithms.
I'm a hafu as well. My mom is a Takahashi. My dad is pure Scottish born. My mom's family look more Jomon than Yamato. She looks native American. Hey, you might be my long lost Ainu cousin. 😉
Since Ancestry just released the 2024 update, Eastern European & Russia region had split to 2 different regions Central & Eastern Europe and Russia. Probably you might gain some Italy and Germanic Europe.
Shogo-san, apparently Japanese people do share some DNA similarities with Southeast Asians and Southern Chinese but with lower percentage. For example, the haplogroups O1b and O2 would sit around 30%-50% on typical Southeast Asians while for Japanese it may sit around 5% to 20%. From what my family told me I'm supposed to be about 12.5% Japanese, 37.5% Chinese (With some Mongolian/Turkic intermixed) and 50% Malay/Indonesian. But after doing my DNA test it came up 48% Chinese, 26% Malay/Indonesian, 20% Thai/Cambodian, 1.6% Indian, 1.4% Japanese, 1.5% Finnish, 1.5% Baltic and 1% Mesoamerican! Then I took the raw DNA data and put it through another calculator. Different results! So I took the haplogroup approach and try to break down my own DNA sequencing. Turns out that if I multiply the combination of DNA haplogroups properly I would get close to what my family had claimed all these while with a slight difference:- What I inherit from my mother: 12.5% Japanese (Kyushu) 24.2% Chinese 18.5% Mongolic/Siberian Turkic (which shared a single haplogroup with ethnic Finnish/Baltics) What I inherit from my father: 25.65% Malay/Indonesian (which is similar to Thai but with an extra Melanesian haplogroup mixture) 7.14% Indian 17.07% Persian My mother is a 4th generation Malaysian with Chinese + Japanese heritage. My father is Malaysian Malay and he had always thought of himself as at least 90% Malay but I guess many Malays forget that due to historic trades and intermarriages with Indians and Arab/Persians in the Straits of Malacca they may have inherited those genes. So there you go. Would probably be much more interesting doing a DNA test on your daughter instead since she's of mixed parentage.
@@normanhayashi Finns Y Haplogroup ancestors split from the Haplogroup ancestors of Modern East Asians thousands of years ago, originally Haplogroup N (Finns and Estonian Balts) and Haplogroup O (East Asians) were descended from Haplogroup NO. So that explains why the Finns and Estonian Balts might show up in map that also includes the Urals, Siberia and parts of Central Asia . Crazy that NO spread out from Southern China and can be found as Far East on Eurasia as the island of Japan via O and as Far West as the peninsula of Northern and Central Norway via N.
@@normanhayashi Turkic peoples gave the name and language to Turkey, the Uralic peoples same group the Finns come from - from the Ural Mountains gave their language to Hungary, and the Hunnic tribes - from roughly the same area as Turks and Mongols, gave the name to Hungary, invaded Europe as well, but largely their genetic presence wasn't as great in mainland Europe, there are some pockets of the old DNA there, and then the Mongols went through so that also brought some additional Siberian, Central Asian, and Asia Steppe DNA into Europe. On the way to Hungary the Hunnic horsemen, joined forces with a Uralic people whom are European looking people with an Asian N Haplogroup marker, then invited local Germanic, Slavic, and Celtic peoples to join their cause, in whats now Hungary, the Uralic language won out, and the Hunnic and Uralic people became a ruling class, but Slavs, and also some Germanics, and Celts became the majority of the commoners, they just adopted the Uralic language of the one invading group, while the Hunnic people simply ruled on top, some things are specifically Hunnic in origin for instance the horse culture as seen in Horse archery and pasture grazing, and even foods, Goulash being a descendent of Central Asian pot meat dishes, and in Turkey they brought the Turkic language and culture, but by that time they had largely converted to Islam after leaving their Shamanic beliefs so the old Turkic Shamanic beliefs like Tengri associated with Mongolian beliefs had by then disappeared, and they brought foods like Yogurt originally being a Central Asia thing, now associated with Greece, and even the style of cooking that is Kebabs, but the majority of the population is genetically similar to their Armenian, Middle Eastern, and Greek neighbors in that case and largely also descended from Anatolian farmers. The languages of the invading groups won out but genetically they did not in that case.
@@normanhayashi Malay are usually half austro asiatic, is that your combination of both austronesian (malay indo, filipino) and austroasiatic genes (khmer, thai)? On Peninsular Malaysia, Malay are usually half each from the migrations of austronesians, Austroasiatics were first and mixed with negritos, maybe hoanbinhian (I will research this further), and occupied the Sundaland Shelf before it sunk--Austronesians came after this. and they also have considerable 9-20% Indian DNA (due to history, Indianization, Cholas, or Muslim trader times, bringing all types of muslims, Gujarati, Tamil, Arab, Persian Muslims all together), from Malays that are not half Indian muslims. So is your father just straight Austronesian (unlikely; excluding Indian/Per/Arab DNA?
I definitely became a big fan. 🙌🏼 I'm married to Japanese man, and I'm Spanish Italian descendant. We sometimes daydream how our kids will look alike 😂 Thanks for sharing this info 🙏🏼 😆
You should try 23andme next time! :) I am half korean and did ancestry and my sister did 23andme and the asian side was more in detail, while mine just said 50% korean , 23andme showed japanese (2%) , mongolian, Chinese, central asia (2% or less for those). And when I upload my results in other websites, they show these results as well.
Nice results! I was wondering about your European side, since you hardly never mention about it. hehe. I'm a Hapa, half Korean and half European-American (mostly Scots-Irish/German), I've done the DNA test. 48% Korea 29% Scotland 7% Germanic Europe 6% Sweden 5% Wales 3% Ireland 2% Northern Japan It's funny that I have 2% Japanese, which is so cool!
I would recommend 23andMe! My sister and I got it done through there and it gave the prefectures we had closest DNA ties with. My grandmother was from Hiroshima and without having that information they were able to say my DNA closely matches that of people within Hiroshima prefecture. Also, i thought I would only be 25% since my dad is half, but my sister and I both have closer to 35% Japanese DNA. Apparently theres a scientific explanation, nonetheless it made me feel more validated on my identity.
Thanks for this tip. I'm always curious if both Ancestry and 23andMe (as recommended by Elon Musk's mother also :) ) would get almost the same results or would wildly differ. I'd pay none of them any attention of that were to be the case. Have you ever tried using another company too? I would pray that none of them sell my DNA and other personal information on to outside groups, governmental or otherwise. That's the creepy part of these DNA test services that put me off.
Ethnicity results can vary tremendously from the family's history narrative. Your results are pretty much in line with what you expected and as per AncestryDNA's algos but a further breakdown of your raw data via GedMatch could deliver some surprises.
Have you checked back on your DNA results recently? They update them periodically as they get more data. I’m half Japanese and my original ancestry dna results also said I was 2 or 3% Korean, but now says 3% southern Japanese islands. Might be interesting to see if yours changed.
I’m full Japanese but this still looks fun to do despite the sketchy things I hear about these dna tests. I’ve been told that I look Filipina because of my slightly dark skin which I got from my dad. My dad’s family has more of the non-Japanese traits(facial features and even a bit personality wise) such as my grandma’s nose being a bit “higher” than an average Japanese person so I do wonder if my ancestry lies in other places besides Japan
Do it! I've done multiples tests through 4 different companies, I'd suggest 23andme if you were to do one. Genetics are so weird sometimes. I'm entirely white, literally as white as it gets (I'm half German, and the other half is mostly English but also Irish) but people always assume that I'm not fully white. I'm asked quite often if I'm hispanic or partially Asian because I have darker features and have almond shaped eyes.
OMG Same!!! I'm full Japanese too, but I get mistaken for being Polynesian or Thai. My sister and dad, who also have dark skin, get mistaken as Filipinos too. I personally think it ain't that weird to not look stereotypically East Asian. I read it could possibly be the Jomon trait (the traits other than the Yayoi). The Jomon's origins are not determined yet, but most scholars speculate the Jomon came from Northeast or Southeast Asia. So, it's not entirely strange to have Southeastern looks while being full Japanese.
@@manai2621 That is so interesting, I did not know that. My mom told me a long time ago that Japan was made up of people from other Asian countries(I might be wrong though, so someone who is familiar with Japanese history feel free to correct me). But yeah, I feel like there's not really a specific facial feature or skin color when it comes to being Japanese.
@@manai2621 It could actually come from Yayoi-side. Origins of the Yayoi people are also undetermined. All we know scientifically is that they started to show around 3,000 years ago in Kyushu and southern parts of the Korean peninsula. (According to various 東夷伝, their customs/clothing were that of people who lived in warm weathers. They were rice farmers as well as sailors/fishermen.) Some scholars claim that the Yayoi people shared similar cultural traits with Austronesian people like teeth blackening. Japanese Rice DNA analysis suggests it came from Southern China, particularly around Yangtze River.
Interesting! I think your 48% Northern Japan and 2% Korean can mean Jomon-Japanese 48% and Yayoi/Yamato-Japanese 2%. Most of Modern Japanese are mix of Jomon and Yayoi.. Jomon are the oldest people living in Japan and Yayoi people are the people immigrated from Asia through Korea as you may already know.. So this test is probably mostly accurate for your Japanese part..
Japanese is already a mix of Korean, Chinese, Ainu and a third mystery group that is still being researched. Due to common Central Asian origins, there will also be a small percentage of Native American. The whole % thing should be taken with caution, as they are based on markers that are geographically/ethnically unique. There is a case of a daughter's mother being part Italian, but the daughter herself came up with 0% Italian, as she didn't inherit the unique markers known to exist in Italy.
That's different. The Japanese people are a mixed race of the Yamato people, the Yayoi people of the Korean peninsula, and the Jomon people of the Japanese archipelago. Archeology has revealed that the Yamato people were nomads in northeastern China about 3,500 years ago, but due to the colder climate, they migrated south to the Korean Peninsula around the 3rd century BC, and then came to the Japanese archipelago in the 3rd century. are. The Yamato people have DNA D1a2 and are a different ethnic group from the Chinese and Koreans. O1b2 is an ethnic group related to Austroasiatic languages such as Tai, and it is highly likely that they lived downstream of the Yellow River during the Neolithic period, and are presumed to be Yayoi people who brought rice to the Japanese archipelago. There is.
@@kaneowaikiki3298 I think the data is old. The Yayoi people are of O1b2 descent and are of Austro-Asian descent. The Jomon people in the north were Ainu speakers, a Tungusic people who immigrated from Siberia, and from around the 5th century mixed with the Okhotsk people to form the Ainu people. The early Jomon people in the south were Negroid, like the indigenous people of Australia, but they intermixed with indigenous peoples from Taiwan and other countries. Yamato people and Yayoi people have completely different Y-DNA, and descendants of Japanese emperors have D1a2 DNA. As for O2, there is a high possibility that they were people from the Yellow River and came to Japan around the time of the fall of Baekje.
I would suggest doing a test through 23andme. I've done Ancestry tests through 4 different companies, and for me 23andme has always been the most specific, it really breaks it down into specific regions within a country and it's just more accurate in my opinion. I feel that Ancestry somewhat misplaces specific DNA. Especially with European DNA there is a lot of overlap between regions. And I've noticed that they short everyone with Germanic DNA. Every ancestry test I've taken reflects the fact that I'm half German, Swiss-German besides AncestryDNA. And now after the new update it literally only gives me 6%. 🙄
Yeah due to the first migrations to the Americas being only 20.000 years in the past geo-evolution only partly set in and as a result a lot of North-East Asian features were retained (like "asian eyes"). The Inuit aren't necessarily native given that they migrated very recently into northern America with the the different parts being reached 5000-3000 years ago. Greenland took even longer and was only really touched by the first Inuit about 1800-1500 years ago. But yeah given how recent the Inuit migrated and how close they are genetically to say the Ainu it's no surprise that you can sometimes mistake Inuit for straight up East Asians.. because they are.
@@aniinnrchoque1861 The modern East Asian features did not exist 20,000 years ago so those features did not come from them, they are our own features that we developed here. Especially since our ancient relatives dating back 10k+ years ago had completely different features.
@@selenagomezacapella that sounds incredibly disingenuous. The line of descent is undoubtedly overlapping tremendously and while certain new features did develop only barely so considering that environmental evolution and biological adaptation still take thousands if not tens of thousands of years. That's not to say there aren't exceptions. Still the Asian eyefold is present in 95% of the indigenous population of the Americas for a reason.
Your grand father May be north italian. South italian peoples mostly EEF early european farmers, they migrated from Anatolia in mesolitic . Because of this they are shotter than other european's. North italian's have more european hunter gatherers. More tall and coloured eyes.
Your so cute lol, My Grandfather is Sami. Folks don't know who the Sami people are which is sad. They are Asian related to the Siberian an Native an other Asian countries.
Hi Sonja! I’ve learned a lot about the Sami, but I have one question. When I look at old, black and white pictures of Sami they have very east Asian features. The people I see now that claim Sami have very European features. Has there been a lot of racial mixing with Sami or is both East Asian and European represented equally in the Sami people?
They are very distantly related via their Y haplogroup N. Haplogroup N once came from the same group as Haplogroup O the most common Y haplogroup among East Asians, that original group was called Haplogroup NO.
@kinglisco1379 Nordic, not Scandinavian as Sami also natives of Finland and even Russia. Scandinavia is only Norway Sweden and Denmark. That said, dna tests show that ethnic Norwegians Swedes and Finns have inhabited their respective countries as long as the Sami, they just occupied different parts of the Fennoscandian peninsula. Remember, the peninsula used to be completely covered with snow and ice and therefore uninhabitable. As for native EUROPEANS: the Sami often belong to the oldest of the seven matrilineal clans that are specific to Europe. When they first arrived in Europe they lived further east or south than they do today.
We have almost the same DNA results except I don't have Italy. I also got Northern Japan, but my grandmothers family was definitely not from Northern Japan. I think maybe Ancestry DNA doesn't have as much info for Japan yet. They update information on occasion. I use to be part 2% Irish and 2% Swedish, and that disappeared when they updated. My mom use to be 100% Japanese when she first took it, then it changed to 8% being a combo of Korea & China, and when they updated again, I think it said 8% Korea.
DNAテストの動画楽しく拝見させていただきました、どうもありがとうございます。アイヌ に関してですが、アイヌ は１３世紀に北海道に移住してきた人々です。なのでアメリカ先住民などのような先住民族では決してありません。モンゴル帝国の元と戦争をし、北海道に逃れてきたという記録もあるようです。日本人は松前藩など古くから北海道で交易をしてきました。アイヌ も日本人も同じ古いモンゴロイドの縄文人です。 I enjoyed watching the video about DNA test, thank you very much. Talking of Ainu, they migrated to Hokkaido in the 13th century. Therefore, they are definitely not an indigenous group as Native Americans in North America. There is also a record that Ainu had war with Mongolian empire and they fled to Hokkaido. Japanese have conducted trade in Hokkaido such as Matsumae domain for a long time. Both Ainu and Japanese are old mongoloid Jomon people.
The results are based on the company's data pool. So, if they have more respondents who came from Northern Japan, that would show up more prominently. (That is the explanation I have seen about accuracy with the mail-in DNA kits.)
It’s honestly interesting how far the Inuit dna can spread in places where you least expect, like Japan, Finland, Germany, even as far south as Pakistan or Ecuador.
Ancestry splits Japan into 2 regions: Northern and Southern. Southern comprises the Ryukyu Islands, whereas Northern Japan is simply 'Mainland Japan'. Northern Japan does not specifically mean Northern Honshu and Hokkaido, so it doesn't necessarily mean you are Ainu.
Actually, it's been proven that even though Japanese people in Hokkaido are genetically almost identical to mainland Japanese on average, Japanese men in some parts of Hokkaido are more likely to carry the same paternal haplogroup as most Ainu men do than even Okinawan men. That's likely because of their Ainu ancestry.
@@mfreak1126 the Y-Haplogroups D-M55 and D-M125 are widespread throughout all of the Japanese archipelago and are 50+% of the total male population, so the Ainu paternal haplogroup dominates. This does not mean that Ainu-derived autosomal DNA dominates, so the Japanese are certainly not genetically identical to the Ainu or even have mostly Ainu genes (it's averaged to be 5-10%), but there was a heavy Ainu-male lineage established a long time ago, possibly through the Samurai class, or even likely before that. There's an old legend that says that the Japanese were formed from a Korean princess who went to Japan and married a savage (Ainu). If their sons were the founding paternal lineage from which all Japanese descend (all sons having married Yamato women rather than Ainu women), then this one event would have spread the Ainu male haplogroup throughout the entire population while simultaneously diluting the Ainu autosomal genes over time. I know it's folklore, but the picture does fit the evidence fairly well.
@@brianlewis5692 Wtf? I never said Japanese are genetically identical to the Ainu. I said Japanese in Hokkaido are genetically almost identical to mainland Japanese. Are Japanese in Hokkaido all Ainu in your mind? Well, you're not Japanese, so I don't blame you, but the vast majority of us don't look in ways that make people think we're Ainu. I was born and live in Hokkaido, so you can believe me. About 40%, not 50%, of Japanese men's paternal haplogroup is D, and the same goes for Japanese men in Hokkaido, but more than 60% of men in some parts of Hokkaido have D. They highly likely have Ainu ancestry considering that they're in Hokkaido. I was born in one of the places and have seen a lot of people who looked a little bit Ainu. For example, a friend of mine in high school who was way hairier than the average white man. He once said his facial hair had started to grow when he was still 9. Omg! You're a typical non-Japanese person who doesn't understand the difference between the Jomon and the Ainu. Most of us just have Jomon ancestry, not Ainu ancestry. The Okhotsk came to Hokkaido in the 13th century and interbred with the direct descendants of the Jomon there. And their descendants became the Ainu. Japanese outside of Hokkaido had already been genetically identical to modern Japanese way before the 13th century. This means most of us have Jomon ancestry, not Ainu ancestry. The Ainu have Okhotsk ancestry, but we don't because the Jomon didn't either. The Ainu are genetically mostly Jomon, but that doesn't mean they're identical. What you're saying here is like saying a white person who is partly Northern Chinese has Japanese ancestry. It's true that most of our ancestry comes from Northern Chinese, but the white person just have Northern Chinese ancestry, not Japanese ancestry.
@@mfreak1126 I get it, and yes I am part Japanese (among other things) but I am American born and raised. What I call "Ainu" above is yes, Jomon, and what you describe as 'Ainu' (mixed with Okhotsk) I would call "modern Ainu". We're on the same page, more or less. Maybe my terminology is off. So yes, Jomon is ancestral to part of Japanese and part of Ainu, but more of Ainu, since they have unique markers not found among other Asian groups.
Thank you very much for sharing! My background is biology, so I find this extremely interesting. That is so cool that your mom may have significant Ainu ancestry. My wife is hafu with her Japanese family all from the Sapporo area of Hokkaido. We both used the DNA kits from 23andme and similarly her Asian side was mostly Japanese (45.2%) with a sprinkle of Korean (3.4%) and other 1.4% broadly East Asian. Some alleles (gene variations) are more broadly represented beyond national/cultural boundaries so it's not unfounded to have genes in the family that is associated with nearby regions. But the dataset in 23andme doesn't seem to provide any distinction of alleles associated with Ainu (that or my wife's Japanese family from Hokkaido just have no Ainu). Now if the ancestry of one parent is deeply rooted in one region (like most people in Japan when compared with other countries), their genetic composition will absolutely be made of half of that. Now, if one of your parents is already a mix of different regions (the mixture able to be traced within the last couple of generations, like most Anglo-Americans), then it is possible that one's "racial" or "cultural" percentage may not be equal to their genetic percentage. This is due to a phenomenon that is known as "genetic recombination." Um...for simple terms let's replace "recombination" with "shuffling." Think of your genes like a deck of 52 cards - half are red (from dad) and half are black (from mom). When you have a child, you pass on only half of those cards, 26. But before you pass on half of your cards, you shuffle them face down and then distribute half. The most likely result is that you passed on about 50% red (13 cards) and 50% black (13 cards). But because of probability, there is a small chance that a child can be given all black or all red. Example: Because my wife is hafu, our daughter is racially 1/4 Japanese. It is most likely that genetically our daughter has 25% Japanese genes, but because of shuffling, my wife could've passed on 'cards' mostly from her dad's side, so our daughter may be less than 25% Japanese genetically. Or my wife passed on 'cards' mostly from her mom's side so, our daughter may be more than 25% Japanese genetically. (As you can tell we didn't do a DNA kit on our daughter yet, lol). Racially, you are 1/16 Italian and your dad is 1/8 Italian, so I'm assuming your grandparent is 1/4, and your great-grandparent is 1/2 Italian. From a genetic standpoint, genetic shuffling happened right before genes passed from great-grandparent to grandparent. Then another shuffling happened when genes passed from your grandparent to dad. Then there was shuffling a "third" time right before genes passed from your dad to you. Based on your ancestry results you have 1% Italian, instead of 6.25% (1/16). This is can be explained because, during at least one of those three genetic shuffling events, you just ended up with fewer Italian "cards" and more of another. Now did this number result from one shuffling event or slowly across the three times? You may be able to answer part of that by finding out how much Italian "genetic" ancestry your dad actually has. (Any other unexpected percentages of your different European lineages can be explained in the same way) Also, to get a better idea of your ancestral percentages, you should try another kit like 23andme. Because different companies have their own pools of customers, their databases are slightly different. It would be interesting to see if the percentages on your European side would be any different with 23andme. Did Ancestry.com mention anything about your Y-chromosome and mitochondrial heritage? Both of these gene types are unique is a couple of ways. First, they are the few genes that don't go through the "shuffling" process. Mitochondrial DNA is always inherited from mom, so it can tell you details of your mom's mom's mom's mom's etc....lineage. Meanwhile, the Y-chromosome is only in biological males and always inherited by the father, so the Y-chromosome genes can tell you details of your dad's dad's dad's dad's etc.....lineage. 23andme tells you that as well as the percentage of Neanderthal DNA you may have.
A lot of these DNA tests uses the haplogroup D-M55 (D1a2a) to determine Japanese-ness. Ainu tend to have around 80%+ concentration of this haplogroup while Okinawans tend to have around 50%+ due to their strong Jomon connection. I have been through 5 generations of genetic dilution through diversity, and my Japanese-ness score is around only 1.4% according to MyHeritage. However, modern Japanese only have between 25%-48% of the D-M55 haplogroup in their DNA. The further south you go, the lesser D-M55 concentration you have. And my first generation was from Kyushu so that would've explained why I end up with only 1.4%. And the fact that my family had been mingling around with Southern Chinese (which shares a very similar DNA composition with modern Japanese), my DNA test ends up picking up the high concentration of haplogroup commonly associated with Chinese and Southeast Asians. Either way I don't mind the end results. Being a multiethnic person is much more interesting than being a homogenous person. MyHeritage listed me as a combination of 7 different ethnic groups which is very interesting because every two or three generations back someone had to be naughty and do an interracial marriage ;)
And my results from 23me were a bit surprising: I knew about Japanese, Russian and Ukrainian sides of my family, but I got also Balkan Greek, Turkish and Korean.
I wonder if you now know that many Ukrainians from the south and west have significant admixture from Turk, Balkan, Greek... and more, but those in your results very very likely are a part of your Ukrainian heritage going back many hundreds to a thousand years.
Technically, everyone's mixed. No one can really tell what their ancestors did in the past... 😏 If you were to do the test, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be 100% something only. ^^
You'll probably be surprised. In more recent times Japan has had many Korean migrants whom may have hid their identity, as well as the fact the Japanese population share genes with their mainland counterparts via the Yayoi via Haplogroup O. And even then Japan is largely the result of two distinctly different populations, as you know, the Yayoi Japanese/the Yamato whom were farmers from Mainland Asia and genetically similar to Koreans, Chinese, etc. and the Jomon whom were hunter gatherers and part of an older Asian population not related to anyone other than some isolated groups in Asia, coming into conflict and then mixing together in various degrees, but the mainland Yayoi largely won out. In addition there are multiple genetic markers found that suggest some Southeast Asian and Siberian migration at some point. In truth even in so called homogeneous population group no human is pure anything, rather were the result of centuries of waves of humans interacting, waring, and then coalescing/forming into distinct ethnicities. To even further complicate the matter despite the Jomon having features that look somewhat western, more body hair, more prominent noses, etc. they are less related to Europeans than the Yayoi Japanese are. The Yayoi Japanese along with the other modern East Asian populations (Koreans, Chinese, etc.) split off from a common ancestor with Europeans around 41,000 years ago in whats now the near east and Central Asia after leaving Africa, the ancestors of the Jomon left Africa earlier and traveled up the coast settling in East Asia before the ancestors of the Yayoi arrived in the region. Ironic considering how different Humans can look despite being closer related, and despite looking similar can be less related group wise.
This is precisely what puts me off doing these DNA tests. Who knows what kind of individuals or agencies have access to all the intensely personal information these companies procure? Creepy.
Hi half Japanese bro here as well, just wanted to comment on the math of genealogy. Just because you are half your mom and father it does not mean that you get half the genes from each, it’s more random than that. Also these tests are not 100% right, because there is still a lot we are learning. Peace bro
No, you absolutely get exactly half the genes from each. Sorry. It’s still random though. For example, if you have a sister, you could have 100% different genes from her because you got the exact opposite halves from each parent.
@@M_SC Oh you are right and I was wrong but the percentages of DNA you received from ancestors at the grandparent level and further back are not necessarily neatly divided in two with each generation.
I found your grandpa interesting because I swear my own grandpa used to get similar comments when people see his photo. People have said my grandpa looks like he could be Desi Arnaz’ tan brother (Ricky from I love Lucy), but we always said no we are 100% Chinese. And those dna test basically proved we are. I’m willing to believe your grandpa was close to pure Japanese or mix with some other Asian or Ainu like you said. I think people are just not used to seeing Asians with more "stereotypically Eurocentric" facial features but us East Asians are definitely much more diverse in appearance than people think.
It’s due to ancient north Eurasians which aniu/jomon originally came from also dna only gives part of your dna your mum or dad could have other admix like Koreans can have ane dna or Mongolian dna that also mixed with central Asians who were cuacsiods your ((Eurocentric)) features do funny enough come from European type people lol
This!! When I went to Japan I was amazed at how different people looked. Some looked typical Japanese, some looked generic Asian, and some I couldn’t put my finger on. One of my husband’s friends did NOT look Japanese to me even though he assured me he was as far back as he can tell! Same with my husband’s grandpa. He looked like an old white man when he died! They used to read him. I’ve even seen some high bridge noses in Japan. I’m telling you, my trip was eye opening!! Like you said, I’m sure there is a diversity of faces in China too.
@@omomo202 thanks for confirming my sentiments. I think once peole see more Asian faces, usually living in a Asian dominant community, you start to see we are very diverse. Yes we tend to have black hair and brown eyes but there are a few who naturally have hazel eyes even or brown tint hair. The one thing that's more common is the variation in 3D physical features. There is this theory that northern Asians tend to have more monolids and taller noses, while South East Asians have larger eyes and flatter noses due to environmental adaptation. Colder up north so you need more insulating features. Hotter and humid in the south so features that help cool down air entering your nostrils is more common. But even with this, I've seen mixed physical traits regardless of region. Although we can predict patterns as we receive 50 50 genes from our parents, we also have to consider randomness, mutations and genetic lotteries.
@@famitsus987 It would have to be over 8 generations back then since DNA testing such as 23andme can only trace back to 8-10 generations. I know many Asians who were disappointed with their results since they all said we were 100% one East Asian background usually. I did see a interesting interview done by a professor who said that a lot of these randomness happens because Genes do mutate/adapt and despite inheriting 50 50 from our parents, there is still room for random genetic "lottery"
I find it super interesting to see people who are mixed race to see what percentages they have. .. I also wonder about myself. I'm not mixed but who knows what's in there haha
Technically, everyone's mixed. No one can really tell what their ancestors did in the past... 😏 If you were to do the test, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be 100% something only. ^^ Also, hi fellow Canadian! 😃
I did both 23 and me and ancestry. Both shows 50% Japanese but 23 and me, actually break down where in Japan my ancestors are from. Since both of my parents are gone I would like to find a DNA that will break down my relatives showing my dad's side and my mother's side hoping to find my Japanese side of my family.
You should test your DNA with TellmeGen which is a European DNA company based in Spain. They have more reference populations for Japanese people than Ancestry DNA does. My DNA test from TellmeGen has my Asian ancestry as mostly Filipino with 1.60% of my Asian ancestry being Northeast Asian (Japanese) and my other half of my DNA being European which makes sense since I am half Asian half European like you are. Plus, TellmeGen can tell you what cancers and diseases you are prone to get based on your genetics, whereas Ancestry DNA does not have the ability to do that. 😀
Hello Max, I am half Japanese also. My ancestry says I am 50% Japanese and from Northern Japan also. My mothers family currently live in Chiba prefecture. I will have to research it further too.
Jomon People and Ainu should be indistinguishable genetically, they were historically similar ethnicities but Jomon just refers to the people who were on Honshuu during the waves of influx of immigrants of Korean origins.
Japanese here. I naturally have 2% inuit and 0.8% native american gene. So that means my ancestors were the first people to migrate to the Americas, long before Colombus came.
Korea: 2%!!!! I can now say I am part-Korean!! I am officially 2% Korean! I can sing K-pop without being a Koreaboo! Baltics: "it's only 2% so i can't really say anything" 😂 *edit: sorry I just saw someone already posted this lmao
Hi Max, I did 23&me, I got 50% japanese and 50% british Isles. Kinda disappointed but checks out. Can you do an episode on whether japanese people take these tests at all and whether or why they are not interested in them? I think it would be an interesting cultural comparison. Because of the frequency of "adoption" in japan, i actually have no blood connection to my Japanese surname, (guy gets adopted by his wife's parents, wife dies, guy keeps the name and remarries). Anyway 23&me yielded hundreds of cousins in USA and 0 relatives so far in Japan. I'm curious if anybody ever finds Japanese relatives through these programs or if the Market penetration for DNA analysis in Japan is just 0.00%
All of my family is English right, I take this test right, it's says England... Ok expected. Several months later it updates and all of a sudden I'm Scottish? Man this update is weird. Anyways, I bought a kelt.
I did one of these a while ago (was secretly hoping I had at least a drop of Japanese 😅) - found out my family genealogy books were mostly correct. Mostly from the Atlantic isles (England, Ireland, Wales, etc.), a drop of Cherokee, some German. What was news to me is I have a little Southern-Euro and African. The results have evolved over time, though, as more and more people join the database, etc.
Northern Japan (I think this is their code word for Yamato) as opposed to the Ryukyu Islands, not necessarily Ainu at all, but possible in part if Hokkaido is highlighted. It is not necessarily an indication of ethnicity, but more of the movement/migrations of populations throughout time. I ended up having 45% Northern Japan and 5% Southern Japanese Islands (Ryukyu/Nansei…they don’t even say Okinawan, and their regional description blurb makes me wonder if their go-to source was a right-wing Japanese nationalist🤔😏). It could mean our ancestors just settled there for a time, or they are actually indigenous…or both, I wouldn’t wonder. Maybe the same in your case, as well? 🤷🏻♀️
Vary cool. I've been told growing up but on ancestry dna results came out to be 7% Japanese. All my grandparents were from Okinawa which would explain that . Thinking of doing a different brand of test like Heritage or 23 and me. God bless you all
I found out recently I’m quarter Japanese from my mom’s side of the family and from the whaling era and I’m part Tahitian and Māori from New Zealand and English Irish Greek and French on the other side of family
I would not be too attached to DNA results from Europe, especially central part: Germany, Poland, Czech, Slovakia, Hungary. Over centuries, people in this part mixed up so much, that nobody actually can really say he/she is 100% German or Polish or Czech or whatever.
I always thought i was 100% korean my whole life but my friend said i look like a mix of korean and japanese and turns out Im 98% korean and 2% japanese it was really interesting when i saw my results
im chicano our (mexicans) dna test is some what similar because barbarians from gotland settled in Spain after they crused rome the 9th Hispana Ligion in the year 49AD built Britannia for Rome and our Native DNA test shows eastasian siberian ainu people are also Siberian so basically what im trying to say is half white half Japanese usually look Mexican lol btw i used to live in koshigaya
Did you find any long list cousins in Japan? Or trace ancestry past you Mom's koseki? My Dad hasnt gotten past my Obasan's koseki but tells these crazy stories about being related to samurai and kikkoman company but I'm not buying it. Maybe Jamon is norther japan too along with Ainu. If I remember right from a cookbook that had ancient recipes.
Hokkaido (the northern island) IS Japan. Ancestry has a crazy way of renaming it to fit their own needs but I lived on Hokkaido for 3 years near Sapporo and trust me...the people are Japanese. There is a very tiny Ainu minority there but most people are pretty much Japanese.
Interesting result. northern Japanese would be Jomon (Ainu is very limited but said to be related) which is about 1/3 of current population of Japan carries. Korean part is Yayoi people who came to Japan 5-400 bc (even earlier) that had taken over and mixed with original population. European part is Anglo Saxon (Germanic, Northern includes Polish, Baltic and British isle) , Italian part could be again Germanic since Italy was governed by Goth, Lombardian etc. for long time and as in Japan there were a lot of cross breeding over many generations. This is what I make of your DNA result. More you study histories, origin of nations, movements of people over tens of thousand of years things will make more sense.
Ancestry does a pretty good job.. but just like all of the other companies they struggle with German DNA. I am half German, half Norwegian.. and I got 0% Germanic Europe. So some of your 15% England & NW Europe is probably actually German. If your German ancestors were from northern / western Germany.. that would make perfect sense. If they were from the southern or eastern part.. it would make less sense. Germany is right at the center of Europe, so people in the north are more similar to Scandinavians, people in the south are more like Italians, in the east they are more Slavic..
The German ethnic make up is fairly intriguing going back in history. If you do in fact have German ancestry that traces more than 500 years back then you will get some weird and sometimes controversial results. Generally one of the largest ancestorial groups are the Celts with anywhere around 45% for most men and 35% for women. German women have a lot more Germanic ancestry for some reason. Though then you need to account for Nordic, Germanic, Scythe and Slavic - all mixed up into German ancestry to various degrees. Over the last 70 years there has been a lot of naturalization going on that now should account for at least 15 million people inside Germany - so maybe that can in part explain the absence of "German" ancestry in your test (tho I honestly doubt it). Also you should be vary if it picked up French because the northern French just like the low-Dutch are of the same descent as your average German. Also if your "German" ancestor came from the very East, either Wend German, Silesian German or Piast German there is a strong possibility that you may have picked up Slavic ancestry instead (which btw is true for myself because my family has a Sorb background). Even then tho it's pretty rare to get no German at all in a DNA test. Very blurry German DNA ancestry I guess. U probably already tried another service but if indeed you end up as an almost impossible Sami-Sorb breed with no German ancestry whatsoever that would be pretty epic yet spooky ngl.
The Korean is likely because of Yayoi admixture. The Northern Japan does indicate Jomon admixture. But since you're half European neither of those things are really obvious at all lol
You have to think of yourself as a bouquet of flowers from a bouquet of your mom's and a bouquet of your dad's dna. So, you will not get the same bouquet as a sibling. It is random. I should be a quarter German, or at least 20%, but I am only like 5%. The other dna regions were more dominant than the German.
England would come up for sure if your father is North German, that is Saxon or such PS you wont necessarily inherit the italian even tho you descend from the particular person. As this ancestor would unlikely comeout as 100% themselves, and you picked out mostly the non italian parts
It's a simple typo mistake and if you get what it means then shut up and move on. Do you really know who and what Jomon, Yayoi and Ainu or Ryukyuu people ?
@@mikiohirata9627 Cool off buddy. It clearly has a joke/satire joke to the comment. Don't get why you are getting made a little comment pointing out a pretty funny mistake.
I'm quite suprised how this test was for you. Northern Japan = Ainu or True Native Japanese; Korean = Southern Japanese aka Yayoi invaders, probably from Ancient Korea region; England = the saxons from "Anglo-saxons" were actually a northern germanic tribe. Or if you know someone who were from there they could be Britains, of celtic descent; Germany = Probably from other parts of current Germany Irish = May be both recent viking invasion or ancient Proto-indo European conection (Yamnaya invaders, the same ancesters of current Germanic and slavic people); Baltic = Poland once fused with Lithuanian in single country. 1% Italian = Southern Italian is probably from Sardinia, northern italians may have some connection from the Holy roman empire or a ancient Yamnaya ancestry. So your italian may be fused with germanic DNA in this test. The ainu part doesent mean your mom family are from hokkaido, but some emish people in the main ailand were absorbed into southern japanese culture, so it could be possible to be ainu/emish and not from hokkaido. Poland genetics is a mix of Slavic, Baltic and Germanic, and Slovakian Check republic and Ukranian for Southern Poles or northern Ukrainians. In the past it was a kingdom named Ruthenia. If you have any roots in the european nobility be awere they often married people from other countries, mainly germans and austrians from Habsburg family. So maybe that's way you dont have so many Italian DNA.
I got zero Japanese, probably because i'm not Japanese.
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@eviscerate dunda Ahh.. He's not Indian dude
Yes, that would make sense.
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Okay so: the percentages you see here only show you how much/which parts of your heritage are represented in your DNA. The further you get down a family line, the less likely a person will have the original ethnicity represented in their DNA.
I can't explain it well, but basically how genetics works is that you randomly inherit part of each parents DNA. Because your mom is all asian, you can only inherit asian DNA from her. But because your dad has ancestry all over Europe, you inherit a random selection of his DNA. So not all of your heritage will be visible in your DNA since you don't inherit all of your dads DNA. So theres a random chance you didn't inherit parts of your dads Italianness.
The percentages or fractions we use to describe our heritage only describe our heritage, but not the actual ethnicities that make up our DNA.
I also went down to the comments to comment this :)
You are correct. If someone’s father is Chinese and Irish, they would inherit about half of their genes from their father, but they may not show 25% of their genes as Chinese and 25% of their genes as Irish. The contribution of a grandparent to your DNA can be higher or lower than expected. There’s also another factor: DNA tests sample a relatively small number of genes. The sample sizes for some populations may not be that big, so the test may not be the good at linking you to a given population. I find that over time I see subregions suggested by 23andme appearing and disappearing. This is because they are increasing the number of samples as well as tinkering with their algorithms.
Yeah only the genes which are dominant over other makes the facial features & others for mental & physical features
I think they meant the inverse. It only describes the ethniticies (genetics), not the heritage (which includes culture)
Yeah, it's not quite as mathematical as we think.
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It's not " *Yaoi* " but " *Yayoi* ". 😂
*Yayoi* : Ancient Japanese
*Yaoi* : BL (Boys' love) fictions
Should’ve checked my subs lol
That's what I thought lol
I spit my coffee 😂
I was looking for this comment!
Glad I wasn’t the only one who noticed
Yayoi = ancesors of both Japanese & Koreans. Modern Japanese have 90% Yayoi, the remainder is Jomon.
I think you look like a Kazakh or Tatar. There are a lot of people in Central Asia who look like you.
True, they do! Which makes sense being in the middle of Europe and Asia so where the ethnicities blend and Max being half Asian and half European.
I'm a hafu as well. My mom is a Takahashi. My dad is pure Scottish born. My mom's family look more Jomon than Yamato. She looks native American. Hey, you might be my long lost Ainu cousin.
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I’m Japanese half korean 😊 born in Tokyo but I was raised in America but just recently moved back to Japan 🇯🇵 six years ago.
Since Ancestry just released the 2024 update, Eastern European & Russia region had split to 2 different regions Central & Eastern Europe and Russia. Probably you might gain some Italy and Germanic Europe.
I'm Japanese, but a lot of people tell me I look like I'm from South-east Asia...
I might have some blood from there, this looks interesting!
lol yeah kinda like vietnamese or southern china
Shogo-san, apparently Japanese people do share some DNA similarities with Southeast Asians and Southern Chinese but with lower percentage. For example, the haplogroups O1b and O2 would sit around 30%-50% on typical Southeast Asians while for Japanese it may sit around 5% to 20%.
From what my family told me I'm supposed to be about 12.5% Japanese, 37.5% Chinese (With some Mongolian/Turkic intermixed) and 50% Malay/Indonesian. But after doing my DNA test it came up 48% Chinese, 26% Malay/Indonesian, 20% Thai/Cambodian, 1.6% Indian, 1.4% Japanese, 1.5% Finnish, 1.5% Baltic and 1% Mesoamerican!
Then I took the raw DNA data and put it through another calculator. Different results!
So I took the haplogroup approach and try to break down my own DNA sequencing. Turns out that if I multiply the combination of DNA haplogroups properly I would get close to what my family had claimed all these while with a slight difference:-
What I inherit from my mother:
12.5% Japanese (Kyushu)
24.2% Chinese
18.5% Mongolic/Siberian Turkic (which shared a single haplogroup with ethnic Finnish/Baltics)
What I inherit from my father:
25.65% Malay/Indonesian (which is similar to Thai but with an extra Melanesian haplogroup mixture)
7.14% Indian
17.07% Persian
My mother is a 4th generation Malaysian with Chinese + Japanese heritage. My father is Malaysian Malay and he had always thought of himself as at least 90% Malay but I guess many Malays forget that due to historic trades and intermarriages with Indians and Arab/Persians in the Straits of Malacca they may have inherited those genes.
So there you go. Would probably be much more interesting doing a DNA test on your daughter instead since she's of mixed parentage.
@@normanhayashi Finns Y Haplogroup ancestors split from the Haplogroup ancestors of Modern East Asians thousands of years ago, originally Haplogroup N (Finns and Estonian Balts) and Haplogroup O (East Asians) were descended from Haplogroup NO. So that explains why the Finns and Estonian Balts might show up in map that also includes the Urals, Siberia and parts of Central Asia . Crazy that NO spread out from Southern China and can be found as Far East on Eurasia as the island of Japan via O and as Far West as the peninsula of Northern and Central Norway via N.
@@normanhayashi Turkic peoples gave the name and language to Turkey, the Uralic peoples same group the Finns come from - from the Ural Mountains gave their language to Hungary, and the Hunnic tribes - from roughly the same area as Turks and Mongols, gave the name to Hungary, invaded Europe as well, but largely their genetic presence wasn't as great in mainland Europe, there are some pockets of the old DNA there, and then the Mongols went through so that also brought some additional Siberian, Central Asian, and Asia Steppe DNA into Europe. On the way to Hungary the Hunnic horsemen, joined forces with a Uralic people whom are European looking people with an Asian N Haplogroup marker, then invited local Germanic, Slavic, and Celtic peoples to join their cause, in whats now Hungary, the Uralic language won out, and the Hunnic and Uralic people became a ruling class, but Slavs, and also some Germanics, and Celts became the majority of the commoners, they just adopted the Uralic language of the one invading group, while the Hunnic people simply ruled on top, some things are specifically Hunnic in origin for instance the horse culture as seen in Horse archery and pasture grazing, and even foods, Goulash being a descendent of Central Asian pot meat dishes, and in Turkey they brought the Turkic language and culture, but by that time they had largely converted to Islam after leaving their Shamanic beliefs so the old Turkic Shamanic beliefs like Tengri associated with Mongolian beliefs had by then disappeared, and they brought foods like Yogurt originally being a Central Asia thing, now associated with Greece, and even the style of cooking that is Kebabs, but the majority of the population is genetically similar to their Armenian, Middle Eastern, and Greek neighbors in that case and largely also descended from Anatolian farmers. The languages of the invading groups won out but genetically they did not in that case.
@@normanhayashi Malay are usually half austro asiatic, is that your combination of both austronesian (malay indo, filipino) and austroasiatic genes (khmer, thai)? On Peninsular Malaysia, Malay are usually half each from the migrations of austronesians, Austroasiatics were first and mixed with negritos, maybe hoanbinhian (I will research this further), and occupied the Sundaland Shelf before it sunk--Austronesians came after this.
and they also have considerable 9-20% Indian DNA (due to history, Indianization, Cholas, or Muslim trader times, bringing all types of muslims, Gujarati, Tamil, Arab, Persian Muslims all together), from Malays that are not half Indian muslims.
So is your father just straight Austronesian (unlikely; excluding Indian/Per/Arab DNA?
My Ancestry DNA came out that I’m 50% Northern Japan, 36% English, 10% Scottish, 3% Norwegian, 1% Irish
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@KingSpook that's "Hafu", means "half", a term in Japan commonly used to refer to distinctively interracial and mixed heritage people
Northern Japanese are Jomon people.
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I definitely became a big fan. 🙌🏼 I'm married to Japanese man, and I'm Spanish Italian descendant. We sometimes daydream how our kids will look alike 😂
Thanks for sharing this info 🙏🏼 😆
I would say pretty close to Central Asians
You should try 23andme next time! :) I am half korean and did ancestry and my sister did 23andme and the asian side was more in detail, while mine just said 50% korean , 23andme showed japanese (2%) , mongolian, Chinese, central asia (2% or less for those). And when I upload my results in other websites, they show these results as well.
Nice results! I was wondering about your European side, since you hardly never mention about it. hehe. I'm a Hapa, half Korean and half European-American (mostly Scots-Irish/German), I've done the DNA test.
48% Korea
29% Scotland
7% Germanic Europe
6% Sweden
5% Wales
3% Ireland
2% Northern Japan
It's funny that I have 2% Japanese, which is so cool!
I would recommend 23andMe! My sister and I got it done through there and it gave the prefectures we had closest DNA ties with. My grandmother was from Hiroshima and without having that information they were able to say my DNA closely matches that of people within Hiroshima prefecture. Also, i thought I would only be 25% since my dad is half, but my sister and I both have closer to 35% Japanese DNA. Apparently theres a scientific explanation, nonetheless it made me feel more validated on my identity.
Thanks for this tip. I'm always curious if both Ancestry and 23andMe (as recommended by Elon Musk's mother also :) ) would get almost the same results or would wildly differ. I'd pay none of them any attention of that were to be the case. Have you ever tried using another company too? I would pray that none of them sell my DNA and other personal information on to outside groups, governmental or otherwise. That's the creepy part of these DNA test services that put me off.
Ethnicity results can vary tremendously from the family's history narrative. Your results are pretty much in line with what you expected and as per AncestryDNA's algos but a further breakdown of your raw data via GedMatch could deliver some surprises.
"Ohmygod 2% Korean I can finally sing kpop w/o being a Koreaboo"
"Oh, Latvia, meh it's only 2% I can't really say anything" 😂😂😂
Korean pride🤟🏻
Im Turkish and im %8 south korean lol
@@SmokeyMountain0 I am 80 percent korean
@@madbymycommentumad9041 where are you from
@@SmokeyMountain0 Korean I grew up in Sejong City but I spent most of my life in the states.
Have you checked back on your DNA results recently? They update them periodically as they get more data. I’m half Japanese and my original ancestry dna results also said I was 2 or 3% Korean, but now says 3% southern Japanese islands. Might be interesting to see if yours changed.
남일본과 한국은 같은 유전자입니다.
I’m full Japanese but this still looks fun to do despite the sketchy things I hear about these dna tests. I’ve been told that I look Filipina because of my slightly dark skin which I got from my dad. My dad’s family has more of the non-Japanese traits(facial features and even a bit personality wise) such as my grandma’s nose being a bit “higher” than an average Japanese person so I do wonder if my ancestry lies in other places besides Japan
Do it! I've done multiples tests through 4 different companies, I'd suggest 23andme if you were to do one.
Genetics are so weird sometimes. I'm entirely white, literally as white as it gets (I'm half German, and the other half is mostly English but also Irish) but people always assume that I'm not fully white. I'm asked quite often if I'm hispanic or partially Asian because I have darker features and have almond shaped eyes.
イチカラ村Tarrey town uhh as far as I know, I am 100% Japanese lol. And yes, I know my grammar is awful despite living in the United States for 18 years 😂
OMG Same!!! I'm full Japanese too, but I get mistaken for being Polynesian or Thai. My sister and dad, who also have dark skin, get mistaken as Filipinos too. I personally think it ain't that weird to not look stereotypically East Asian. I read it could possibly be the Jomon trait (the traits other than the Yayoi). The Jomon's origins are not determined yet, but most scholars speculate the Jomon came from Northeast or Southeast Asia. So, it's not entirely strange to have Southeastern looks while being full Japanese.
@@manai2621 That is so interesting, I did not know that. My mom told me a long time ago that Japan was made up of people from other Asian countries(I might be wrong though, so someone who is familiar with Japanese history feel free to correct me). But yeah, I feel like there's not really a specific facial feature or skin color when it comes to being Japanese.
@@manai2621 It could actually come from Yayoi-side. Origins of the Yayoi people are also undetermined. All we know scientifically is that they started to show around 3,000 years ago in Kyushu and southern parts of the Korean peninsula. (According to various 東夷伝, their customs/clothing were that of people who lived in warm weathers. They were rice farmers as well as sailors/fishermen.) Some scholars claim that the Yayoi people shared similar cultural traits with Austronesian people like teeth blackening. Japanese Rice DNA analysis suggests it came from Southern China, particularly around Yangtze River.
Interesting! I think your 48% Northern Japan and 2% Korean can mean Jomon-Japanese 48% and Yayoi/Yamato-Japanese 2%. Most of Modern Japanese are mix of Jomon and Yayoi.. Jomon are the oldest people living in Japan and Yayoi people are the people immigrated from Asia through Korea as you may already know.. So this test is probably mostly accurate for your Japanese part..
Japanese is already a mix of Korean, Chinese, Ainu and a third mystery group that is still being researched.
Due to common Central Asian origins, there will also be a small percentage of Native American.
The whole % thing should be taken with caution, as they are based on markers that are geographically/ethnically unique.
There is a case of a daughter's mother being part Italian, but the daughter herself came up with 0% Italian, as she didn't inherit the unique markers known to exist in Italy.
That's different. The Japanese people are a mixed race of the Yamato people, the Yayoi people of the Korean peninsula, and the Jomon people of the Japanese archipelago.
Archeology has revealed that the Yamato people were nomads in northeastern China about 3,500 years ago, but due to the colder climate, they migrated south to the Korean Peninsula around the 3rd century BC, and then came to the Japanese archipelago in the 3rd century. are.
The Yamato people have DNA D1a2 and are a different ethnic group from the Chinese and Koreans.
O1b2 is an ethnic group related to Austroasiatic languages such as Tai, and it is highly likely that they lived downstream of the Yellow River during the Neolithic period, and are presumed to be Yayoi people who brought rice to the Japanese archipelago. There is.
@@kaneowaikiki3298 I think the data is old. The Yayoi people are of O1b2 descent and are of Austro-Asian descent.
The Jomon people in the north were Ainu speakers, a Tungusic people who immigrated from Siberia, and from around the 5th century mixed with the Okhotsk people to form the Ainu people.
The early Jomon people in the south were Negroid, like the indigenous people of Australia, but they intermixed with indigenous peoples from Taiwan and other countries.
Yamato people and Yayoi people have completely different Y-DNA, and descendants of Japanese emperors have D1a2 DNA.
As for O2, there is a high possibility that they were people from the Yellow River and came to Japan around the time of the fall of Baekje.
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I would suggest doing a test through 23andme.
I've done Ancestry tests through 4 different companies, and for me 23andme has always been the most specific, it really breaks it down into specific regions within a country and it's just more accurate in my opinion. I feel that Ancestry somewhat misplaces specific DNA. Especially with European DNA there is a lot of overlap between regions. And I've noticed that they short everyone with Germanic DNA.
Every ancestry test I've taken reflects the fact that I'm half German, Swiss-German besides AncestryDNA. And now after the new update it literally only gives me 6%. 🙄
The Indigenous peoples of the Americas share distant ancestry with Ainu, East Asians, Paleo-Siberians from the Late Ice Age.
Yeah due to the first migrations to the Americas being only 20.000 years in the past geo-evolution only partly set in and as a result a lot of North-East Asian features were retained (like "asian eyes").
The Inuit aren't necessarily native given that they migrated very recently into northern America with the the different parts being reached 5000-3000 years ago. Greenland took even longer and was only really touched by the first Inuit about 1800-1500 years ago.
But yeah given how recent the Inuit migrated and how close they are genetically to say the Ainu it's no surprise that you can sometimes mistake Inuit for straight up East Asians.. because they are.
@@aniinnrchoque1861 The modern East Asian features did not exist 20,000 years ago so those features did not come from them, they are our own features that we developed here. Especially since our ancient relatives dating back 10k+ years ago had completely different features.
@@selenagomezacapella that sounds incredibly disingenuous. The line of descent is undoubtedly overlapping tremendously and while certain new features did develop only barely so considering that environmental evolution and biological adaptation still take thousands if not tens of thousands of years. That's not to say there aren't exceptions.
Still the Asian eyefold is present in 95% of the indigenous population of the Americas for a reason.
Your grand father May be north italian. South italian peoples mostly EEF early european farmers, they migrated from Anatolia in mesolitic . Because of this they are shotter than other european's. North italian's have more european hunter gatherers. More tall and coloured eyes.
Your so cute lol, My Grandfather is Sami. Folks don't know who the Sami people are which is sad. They are Asian related to the Siberian an Native an other Asian countries.
Hi Sonja! I’ve learned a lot about the Sami, but I have one question. When I look at old, black and white pictures of Sami they have very east Asian features. The people I see now that claim Sami have very European features. Has there been a lot of racial mixing with Sami or is both East Asian and European represented equally in the Sami people?
They are very distantly related via their Y haplogroup N. Haplogroup N once came from the same group as Haplogroup O the most common Y haplogroup among East Asians, that original group was called Haplogroup NO.
Sami aren't asian they are native Scandinavians, before Europeans took over
@kinglisco1379 Nordic, not Scandinavian as Sami also natives of Finland and even Russia. Scandinavia is only Norway Sweden and Denmark. That said, dna tests show that ethnic Norwegians Swedes and Finns have inhabited their respective countries as long as the Sami, they just occupied different parts of the Fennoscandian peninsula. Remember, the peninsula used to be completely covered with snow and ice and therefore uninhabitable. As for native EUROPEANS: the Sami often belong to the oldest of the seven matrilineal clans that are specific to Europe. When they first arrived in Europe they lived further east or south than they do today.
We have almost the same DNA results except I don't have Italy. I also got Northern Japan, but my grandmothers family was definitely not from Northern Japan. I think maybe Ancestry DNA doesn't have as much info for Japan yet. They update information on occasion. I use to be part 2% Irish and 2% Swedish, and that disappeared when they updated. My mom use to be 100% Japanese when she first took it, then it changed to 8% being a combo of Korea & China, and when they updated again, I think it said 8% Korea.
DNAテストの動画楽しく拝見させていただきました、どうもありがとうございます。アイヌ に関してですが、アイヌ は１３世紀に北海道に移住してきた人々です。なのでアメリカ先住民などのような先住民族では決してありません。モンゴル帝国の元と戦争をし、北海道に逃れてきたという記録もあるようです。日本人は松前藩など古くから北海道で交易をしてきました。アイヌ も日本人も同じ古いモンゴロイドの縄文人です。
I enjoyed watching the video about DNA test, thank you very much. Talking of Ainu, they migrated to Hokkaido in the 13th century. Therefore, they are definitely not an indigenous group as Native Americans in North America. There is also a record that Ainu had war with Mongolian empire and they fled to Hokkaido. Japanese have conducted trade in Hokkaido such as Matsumae domain for a long time. Both Ainu and Japanese are old mongoloid Jomon people.
はい。そうですよね。鎌倉時代ごろから北海道にいる方たちですね。何やら、リベラル利権が絡んで「先住民」などと歴史がゆがめられていると聞きました。
The results are based on the company's data pool. So, if they have more respondents who came from Northern Japan, that would show up more prominently. (That is the explanation I have seen about accuracy with the mail-in DNA kits.)
It’s honestly interesting how far the Inuit dna can spread in places where you least expect, like Japan, Finland, Germany, even as far south as Pakistan or Ecuador.
Ancestry splits Japan into 2 regions: Northern and Southern. Southern comprises the Ryukyu Islands, whereas Northern Japan is simply 'Mainland Japan'. Northern Japan does not specifically mean Northern Honshu and Hokkaido, so it doesn't necessarily mean you are Ainu.
Actually, it's been proven that even though Japanese people in Hokkaido are genetically almost identical to mainland Japanese on average, Japanese men in some parts of Hokkaido are more likely to carry the same paternal haplogroup as most Ainu men do than even Okinawan men. That's likely because of their Ainu ancestry.
@@mfreak1126 the Y-Haplogroups D-M55 and D-M125 are widespread throughout all of the Japanese archipelago and are 50+% of the total male population, so the Ainu paternal haplogroup dominates. This does not mean that Ainu-derived autosomal DNA dominates, so the Japanese are certainly not genetically identical to the Ainu or even have mostly Ainu genes (it's averaged to be 5-10%), but there was a heavy Ainu-male lineage established a long time ago, possibly through the Samurai class, or even likely before that. There's an old legend that says that the Japanese were formed from a Korean princess who went to Japan and married a savage (Ainu). If their sons were the founding paternal lineage from which all Japanese descend (all sons having married Yamato women rather than Ainu women), then this one event would have spread the Ainu male haplogroup throughout the entire population while simultaneously diluting the Ainu autosomal genes over time. I know it's folklore, but the picture does fit the evidence fairly well.
@@brianlewis5692 Wtf? I never said Japanese are genetically identical to the Ainu. I said Japanese in Hokkaido are genetically almost identical to mainland Japanese. Are Japanese in Hokkaido all Ainu in your mind? Well, you're not Japanese, so I don't blame you, but the vast majority of us don't look in ways that make people think we're Ainu. I was born and live in Hokkaido, so you can believe me. About 40%, not 50%, of Japanese men's paternal haplogroup is D, and the same goes for Japanese men in Hokkaido, but more than 60% of men in some parts of Hokkaido have D. They highly likely have Ainu ancestry considering that they're in Hokkaido. I was born in one of the places and have seen a lot of people who looked a little bit Ainu. For example, a friend of mine in high school who was way hairier than the average white man. He once said his facial hair had started to grow when he was still 9.
Omg! You're a typical non-Japanese person who doesn't understand the difference between the Jomon and the Ainu. Most of us just have Jomon ancestry, not Ainu ancestry. The Okhotsk came to Hokkaido in the 13th century and interbred with the direct descendants of the Jomon there. And their descendants became the Ainu. Japanese outside of Hokkaido had already been genetically identical to modern Japanese way before the 13th century. This means most of us have Jomon ancestry, not Ainu ancestry. The Ainu have Okhotsk ancestry, but we don't because the Jomon didn't either. The Ainu are genetically mostly Jomon, but that doesn't mean they're identical. What you're saying here is like saying a white person who is partly Northern Chinese has Japanese ancestry. It's true that most of our ancestry comes from Northern Chinese, but the white person just have Northern Chinese ancestry, not Japanese ancestry.
@@mfreak1126 I get it, and yes I am part Japanese (among other things) but I am American born and raised. What I call "Ainu" above is yes, Jomon, and what you describe as 'Ainu' (mixed with Okhotsk) I would call "modern Ainu". We're on the same page, more or less. Maybe my terminology is off. So yes, Jomon is ancestral to part of Japanese and part of Ainu, but more of Ainu, since they have unique markers not found among other Asian groups.
@@brianlewis5692 Haplogroup c is the original jomon/aniu y dna
Your eyes are Asian eyes. Polish is Eastern European/Eurasia now. You are of the human race. ❤
Thank you very much for sharing! My background is biology, so I find this extremely interesting. That is so cool that your mom may have significant Ainu ancestry. My wife is hafu with her Japanese family all from the Sapporo area of Hokkaido. We both used the DNA kits from 23andme and similarly her Asian side was mostly Japanese (45.2%) with a sprinkle of Korean (3.4%) and other 1.4% broadly East Asian. Some alleles (gene variations) are more broadly represented beyond national/cultural boundaries so it's not unfounded to have genes in the family that is associated with nearby regions.
But the dataset in 23andme doesn't seem to provide any distinction of alleles associated with Ainu (that or my wife's Japanese family from Hokkaido just have no Ainu). Now if the ancestry of one parent is deeply rooted in one region (like most people in Japan when compared with other countries), their genetic composition will absolutely be made of half of that. Now, if one of your parents is already a mix of different regions (the mixture able to be traced within the last couple of generations, like most Anglo-Americans), then it is possible that one's "racial" or "cultural" percentage may not be equal to their genetic percentage. This is due to a phenomenon that is known as "genetic recombination." Um...for simple terms let's replace "recombination" with "shuffling."
Think of your genes like a deck of 52 cards - half are red (from dad) and half are black (from mom). When you have a child, you pass on only half of those cards, 26. But before you pass on half of your cards, you shuffle them face down and then distribute half. The most likely result is that you passed on about 50% red (13 cards) and 50% black (13 cards). But because of probability, there is a small chance that a child can be given all black or all red.
Example: Because my wife is hafu, our daughter is racially 1/4 Japanese. It is most likely that genetically our daughter has 25% Japanese genes, but because of shuffling, my wife could've passed on 'cards' mostly from her dad's side, so our daughter may be less than 25% Japanese genetically. Or my wife passed on 'cards' mostly from her mom's side so, our daughter may be more than 25% Japanese genetically. (As you can tell we didn't do a DNA kit on our daughter yet, lol).
Racially, you are 1/16 Italian and your dad is 1/8 Italian, so I'm assuming your grandparent is 1/4, and your great-grandparent is 1/2 Italian. From a genetic standpoint, genetic shuffling happened right before genes passed from great-grandparent to grandparent. Then another shuffling happened when genes passed from your grandparent to dad. Then there was shuffling a "third" time right before genes passed from your dad to you. Based on your ancestry results you have 1% Italian, instead of 6.25% (1/16). This is can be explained because, during at least one of those three genetic shuffling events, you just ended up with fewer Italian "cards" and more of another. Now did this number result from one shuffling event or slowly across the three times? You may be able to answer part of that by finding out how much Italian "genetic" ancestry your dad actually has. (Any other unexpected percentages of your different European lineages can be explained in the same way)
Also, to get a better idea of your ancestral percentages, you should try another kit like 23andme. Because different companies have their own pools of customers, their databases are slightly different. It would be interesting to see if the percentages on your European side would be any different with 23andme.
Did Ancestry.com mention anything about your Y-chromosome and mitochondrial heritage? Both of these gene types are unique is a couple of ways. First, they are the few genes that don't go through the "shuffling" process. Mitochondrial DNA is always inherited from mom, so it can tell you details of your mom's mom's mom's mom's etc....lineage. Meanwhile, the Y-chromosome is only in biological males and always inherited by the father, so the Y-chromosome genes can tell you details of your dad's dad's dad's dad's etc.....lineage. 23andme tells you that as well as the percentage of Neanderthal DNA you may have.
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A lot of these DNA tests uses the haplogroup D-M55 (D1a2a) to determine Japanese-ness. Ainu tend to have around 80%+ concentration of this haplogroup while Okinawans tend to have around 50%+ due to their strong Jomon connection.
I have been through 5 generations of genetic dilution through diversity, and my Japanese-ness score is around only 1.4% according to MyHeritage. However, modern Japanese only have between 25%-48% of the D-M55 haplogroup in their DNA. The further south you go, the lesser D-M55 concentration you have. And my first generation was from Kyushu so that would've explained why I end up with only 1.4%. And the fact that my family had been mingling around with Southern Chinese (which shares a very similar DNA composition with modern Japanese), my DNA test ends up picking up the high concentration of haplogroup commonly associated with Chinese and Southeast Asians.
Either way I don't mind the end results. Being a multiethnic person is much more interesting than being a homogenous person. MyHeritage listed me as a combination of 7 different ethnic groups which is very interesting because every two or three generations back someone had to be naughty and do an interracial marriage ;)
And my results from 23me were a bit surprising: I knew about Japanese, Russian and Ukrainian sides of my family, but I got also Balkan Greek, Turkish and Korean.
This is so cool. Your last name sounds so russian 🇷🇺
I wonder if you now know that many Ukrainians from the south and west have significant admixture from Turk, Balkan, Greek... and more, but those in your results very very likely are a part of your Ukrainian heritage going back many hundreds to a thousand years.
That's a very interesting test. I wonder as
a Japanese,if my result
will be 100% Japanese..
Technically, everyone's mixed. No one can really tell what their ancestors did in the past... 😏
If you were to do the test, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be 100% something only. ^^
You'll probably be surprised. In more recent times Japan has had many Korean migrants whom may have hid their identity, as well as the fact the Japanese population share genes with their mainland counterparts via the Yayoi via Haplogroup O. And even then Japan is largely the result of two distinctly different populations, as you know, the Yayoi Japanese/the Yamato whom were farmers from Mainland Asia and genetically similar to Koreans, Chinese, etc. and the Jomon whom were hunter gatherers and part of an older Asian population not related to anyone other than some isolated groups in Asia, coming into conflict and then mixing together in various degrees, but the mainland Yayoi largely won out. In addition there are multiple genetic markers found that suggest some Southeast Asian and Siberian migration at some point. In truth even in so called homogeneous population group no human is pure anything, rather were the result of centuries of waves of humans interacting, waring, and then coalescing/forming into distinct ethnicities. To even further complicate the matter despite the Jomon having features that look somewhat western, more body hair, more prominent noses, etc. they are less related to Europeans than the Yayoi Japanese are. The Yayoi Japanese along with the other modern East Asian populations (Koreans, Chinese, etc.) split off from a common ancestor with Europeans around 41,000 years ago in whats now the near east and Central Asia after leaving Africa, the ancestors of the Jomon left Africa earlier and traveled up the coast settling in East Asia before the ancestors of the Yayoi arrived in the region. Ironic considering how different Humans can look despite being closer related, and despite looking similar can be less related group wise.
That is so cool. You are Japanese and Korean. COOOOOL
they’re definitely gonna sell the data to the zucc but he’ll get us all eventually anyways lol. Nice video max
The zucc and his lizard overlords have my dna data now... to promote Kpop products to me now lol
This is precisely what puts me off doing these DNA tests. Who knows what kind of individuals or agencies have access to all the intensely personal information these companies procure? Creepy.
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There’s also a good chance a person’s DNA can be obtained from having their blood drawn.
@@daron6616 But not a good chance that the NHS sells it on to shadowy third parties. What a scandal that would be.
Mine came back 100% European. I laughed 🤣 (69% Scottish, 25% Irish, 3% English/north west European, 2% Germanic Europe, 1% Welsh)
Are you tall?
@@zerotwosixty7416 I'm 5'10
Hi half Japanese bro here as well, just wanted to comment on the math of genealogy. Just because you are half your mom and father it does not mean that you get half the genes from each, it’s more random than that. Also these tests are not 100% right, because there is still a lot we are learning. Peace bro
No, you absolutely get exactly half the genes from each. Sorry. It’s still random though. For example, if you have a sister, you could have 100% different genes from her because you got the exact opposite halves from each parent.
@@M_SC Oh you are right and I was wrong but the percentages of DNA you received from ancestors at the grandparent level and further back are not necessarily neatly divided in two with each generation.
I found your grandpa interesting because I swear my own grandpa used to get similar comments when people see his photo. People have said my grandpa looks like he could be Desi Arnaz’ tan brother (Ricky from I love Lucy), but we always said no we are 100% Chinese. And those dna test basically proved we are. I’m willing to believe your grandpa was close to pure Japanese or mix with some other Asian or Ainu like you said. I think people are just not used to seeing Asians with more "stereotypically Eurocentric" facial features but us East Asians are definitely much more diverse in appearance than people think.
It’s due to ancient north Eurasians which aniu/jomon originally came from also dna only gives part of your dna your mum or dad could have other admix like Koreans can have ane dna or Mongolian dna that also mixed with central Asians who were cuacsiods your ((Eurocentric)) features do funny enough come from European type people lol
This!! When I went to Japan I was amazed at how different people looked. Some looked typical Japanese, some looked generic Asian, and some I couldn’t put my finger on.
One of my husband’s friends did NOT look Japanese to me even though he assured me he was as far back as he can tell!
Same with my husband’s grandpa. He looked like an old white man when he died! They used to read him.
I’ve even seen some high bridge noses in Japan.
I’m telling you, my trip was eye opening!!
Like you said, I’m sure there is a diversity of faces in China too.
@@omomo202 thanks for confirming my sentiments. I think once peole see more Asian faces, usually living in a Asian dominant community, you start to see we are very diverse. Yes we tend to have black hair and brown eyes but there are a few who naturally have hazel eyes even or brown tint hair. The one thing that's more common is the variation in 3D physical features. There is this theory that northern Asians tend to have more monolids and taller noses, while South East Asians have larger eyes and flatter noses due to environmental adaptation. Colder up north so you need more insulating features. Hotter and humid in the south so features that help cool down air entering your nostrils is more common. But even with this, I've seen mixed physical traits regardless of region. Although we can predict patterns as we receive 50 50 genes from our parents, we also have to consider randomness, mutations and genetic lotteries.
@@famitsus987 It would have to be over 8 generations back then since DNA testing such as 23andme can only trace back to 8-10 generations. I know many Asians who were disappointed with their results since they all said we were 100% one East Asian background usually. I did see a interesting interview done by a professor who said that a lot of these randomness happens because Genes do mutate/adapt and despite inheriting 50 50 from our parents, there is still room for random genetic "lottery"
I find it super interesting to see people who are mixed race to see what percentages they have. .. I also wonder about myself. I'm not mixed but who knows what's in there haha
Technically, everyone's mixed. No one can really tell what their ancestors did in the past... 😏
If you were to do the test, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be 100% something only. ^^
Also, hi fellow Canadian! 😃
@@coralie288 I would love to do the test for sure. when I save up some extra cash I think it would be fun!! Hi Back from Canada!
I did both 23 and me and ancestry. Both shows 50% Japanese but 23 and me, actually break down where in Japan my ancestors are from. Since both of my parents are gone I would like to find a DNA that will break down my relatives showing my dad's side and my mother's side hoping to find my Japanese side of my family.
Congratulations!! From Japan.
wow you are from ainu. There are just 15 000 in the world of them that's sooo cool
You should test your DNA with TellmeGen which is a European DNA company based in Spain. They have more reference populations for Japanese people than Ancestry DNA does. My DNA test from TellmeGen has my Asian ancestry as mostly Filipino with 1.60% of my Asian ancestry being Northeast Asian (Japanese) and my other half of my DNA being European which makes sense since I am half Asian half European like you are. Plus, TellmeGen can tell you what cancers and diseases you are prone to get based on your genetics, whereas Ancestry DNA does not have the ability to do that. 😀
Tell your mom to take a dna test so we can find out :)) that’ll be a cool video!!
Dude, I have not watched your videos in forever!
Wow you and your dad!
The resemblance is uncanny
Hello Max, I am half Japanese also. My ancestry says I am 50% Japanese and from Northern Japan also. My mothers family currently live in Chiba prefecture. I will have to research it further too.
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Jomon People and Ainu should be indistinguishable genetically, they were historically similar ethnicities but Jomon just refers to the people who were on Honshuu during the waves of influx of immigrants of Korean origins.
We care about you Max.
Japanese here. I naturally have 2% inuit and 0.8% native american gene. So that means my ancestors were the first people to migrate to the Americas, long before Colombus came.
Korea: 2%!!!! I can now say I am part-Korean!! I am officially 2% Korean! I can sing K-pop without being a Koreaboo!
Baltics: "it's only 2% so i can't really say anything" 😂
*edit: sorry I just saw someone already posted this lmao
I’m curious about this test too but I’m also scared of selling my genetic data
Hi Max,
I did 23&me, I got 50% japanese and 50% british Isles. Kinda disappointed but checks out.
Can you do an episode on whether japanese people take these tests at all and whether or why they are not interested in them? I think it would be an interesting cultural comparison.
Because of the frequency of "adoption" in japan, i actually have no blood connection to my Japanese surname, (guy gets adopted by his wife's parents, wife dies, guy keeps the name and remarries).
Anyway 23&me yielded hundreds of cousins in USA and 0 relatives so far in Japan. I'm curious if anybody ever finds Japanese relatives through these programs or if the Market penetration for DNA analysis in Japan is just 0.00%
All of my family is English right, I take this test right, it's says England... Ok expected.
Several months later it updates and all of a sudden I'm Scottish? Man this update is weird.
Anyways, I bought a kelt.
I did one of these a while ago (was secretly hoping I had at least a drop of Japanese 😅) - found out my family genealogy books were mostly correct. Mostly from the Atlantic isles (England, Ireland, Wales, etc.), a drop of Cherokee, some German. What was news to me is I have a little Southern-Euro and African. The results have evolved over time, though, as more and more people join the database, etc.
Awww, was hoping you'd have some Black/African in your DNA, but I guess we'll have to settle for 2% Seoul brother.😏
Northern Japan (I think this is their code word for Yamato) as opposed to the Ryukyu Islands, not necessarily Ainu at all, but possible in part if Hokkaido is highlighted. It is not necessarily an indication of ethnicity, but more of the movement/migrations of populations throughout time.
I ended up having 45% Northern Japan and 5% Southern Japanese Islands (Ryukyu/Nansei…they don’t even say Okinawan, and their regional description blurb makes me wonder if their go-to source was a right-wing Japanese nationalist🤔😏). It could mean our ancestors just settled there for a time, or they are actually indigenous…or both, I wouldn’t wonder. Maybe the same in your case, as well? 🤷🏻♀️
Vary cool. I've been told growing up but on ancestry dna results came out to be 7% Japanese. All my grandparents were from Okinawa which would explain that . Thinking of doing a different brand of test like Heritage or 23 and me. God bless you all
I found out recently I’m quarter Japanese from my mom’s side of the family and from the whaling era and I’m part Tahitian and Māori from New Zealand and English Irish Greek and French on the other side of family
FINALLY IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VID XD
I would not be too attached to DNA results from Europe, especially central part: Germany, Poland, Czech, Slovakia, Hungary. Over centuries, people in this part mixed up so much, that nobody actually can really say he/she is 100% German or Polish or Czech or whatever.
You look so much like your father!
I always thought i was 100% korean my whole life but my friend said i look like a mix of korean and japanese and turns out Im 98% korean and 2% japanese it was really interesting when i saw my results
im chicano our (mexicans) dna test is some what similar because barbarians from gotland settled in Spain after they crused rome the 9th Hispana Ligion in the year 49AD built Britannia for Rome and our Native DNA test shows eastasian siberian ainu people are also Siberian so basically what im trying to say is half white half Japanese usually look Mexican lol btw i used to live in koshigaya
Woah, dude, you're exactly 50% European, 48% Japanese and 2 percent Korean so exactly 50% European 50% Asian.
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Did you find any long list cousins in Japan? Or trace ancestry past you Mom's koseki? My Dad hasnt gotten past my Obasan's koseki but tells these crazy stories about being related to samurai and kikkoman company but I'm not buying it.
Maybe Jamon is norther japan too along with Ainu. If I remember right from a cookbook that had ancient recipes.
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I KNEW YOU WERE GONNA SAY IT 3:59 When your face also told it
Was that Cowboy Bebop music in the background?
Hokkaido (the northern island) IS Japan. Ancestry has a crazy way of renaming it to fit their own needs but I lived on Hokkaido for 3 years near Sapporo and trust me...the people are Japanese. There is a very tiny Ainu minority there but most people are pretty much Japanese.
Wow! You look just like your dad!
You def look mixed lol, you look super similar to one of my cousins, but he is 39.6% Chinese + 8.8% Native American + 0.1% Japanese/Korean
Interesting result. northern Japanese would be Jomon (Ainu is very limited but said to be related) which is about 1/3 of current population of Japan carries.
Korean part is Yayoi people who came to Japan 5-400 bc (even earlier) that had taken over and mixed
with original population. European part is Anglo Saxon (Germanic, Northern includes Polish, Baltic
and British isle) , Italian part could be again Germanic since Italy was governed by Goth, Lombardian
etc. for long time and as in Japan there were a lot of cross breeding over many generations.
This is what I make of your DNA result.
More you study histories, origin of nations, movements of people over tens of thousand of years
things will make more sense.
You are a short circuit person.
Not all Yayoi people = Korean.... blog.goo.ne.jp/sansui-ou/e/cfb799da48ba432667ee41fb28e45ee8
Ancestry does a pretty good job.. but just like all of the other companies they struggle with German DNA. I am half German, half Norwegian.. and I got 0% Germanic Europe. So some of your 15% England & NW Europe is probably actually German. If your German ancestors were from northern / western Germany.. that would make perfect sense. If they were from the southern or eastern part.. it would make less sense. Germany is right at the center of Europe, so people in the north are more similar to Scandinavians, people in the south are more like Italians, in the east they are more Slavic..
The German ethnic make up is fairly intriguing going back in history. If you do in fact have German ancestry that traces more than 500 years back then you will get some weird and sometimes controversial results. Generally one of the largest ancestorial groups are the Celts with anywhere around 45% for most men and 35% for women. German women have a lot more Germanic ancestry for some reason.
Though then you need to account for Nordic, Germanic, Scythe and Slavic - all mixed up into German ancestry to various degrees.
Over the last 70 years there has been a lot of naturalization going on that now should account for at least 15 million people inside Germany - so maybe that can in part explain the absence of "German" ancestry in your test (tho I honestly doubt it).
Also you should be vary if it picked up French because the northern French just like the low-Dutch are of the same descent as your average German.
Also if your "German" ancestor came from the very East, either Wend German, Silesian German or Piast German there is a strong possibility that you may have picked up Slavic ancestry instead (which btw is true for myself because my family has a Sorb background).
Even then tho it's pretty rare to get no German at all in a DNA test. Very blurry German DNA ancestry I guess.
U probably already tried another service but if indeed you end up as an almost impossible Sami-Sorb breed with no German ancestry whatsoever that would be pretty epic yet spooky ngl.
2% Korean is not surprising at all. Many Koreans came to Japan like even at times of Shotoku Taishi as craftsmen etc.
I'm 1% Irish.. I already bought my KISS ME I"M IRISH shirt.... LOL
The Korean is likely because of Yayoi admixture. The Northern Japan does indicate Jomon admixture. But since you're half European neither of those things are really obvious at all lol
You have to think of yourself as a bouquet of flowers from a bouquet of your mom's and a bouquet of your dad's dna. So, you will not get the same bouquet as a sibling. It is random. I should be a quarter German, or at least 20%, but I am only like 5%. The other dna regions were more dominant than the German.
I have no clue what I am, would like to do this at some point.
Northern Japanese are Jomon people 😁
Hey bro, you should try 23andme?
You’d also want to look at how southern Italy was occupied during its history. Your German numbers make sense in that regard.
I am quite impressed with the Ancestry kit on this one!
I’m 67% England,Wales,and Northwest Europe,9% Germanic Europe,7% Ireland& Scotland,6% Italy,4% Norway,3% Sweden Or Sverige,2% Eastern Europe&Russia,1% European Jewish,and 1% Mali!!!!!!!!!🇺🇸🇪🇺
Please update this. Did you find out if you are from Northern Japan?
Where's Shizuka's video? I haven't seen any pic or videos w/ Shizuka.
i got my results during summer turns out im only 18% northern filipino
Is this the Kazuya guy from asian boss
England would come up for sure if your father is North German, that is Saxon or such
PS you wont necessarily inherit the italian even tho you descend from the particular person. As this ancestor would unlikely comeout as 100% themselves, and you picked out mostly the non italian parts
lol you said jamon and yaoi people. I think you mean yayoi people, brother. might wanna google that one in incognito mode if you don't already know.
It's a simple typo mistake and if you get what it means then shut up and move on.
Do you really know who and what Jomon, Yayoi and Ainu or Ryukyuu people ?
@@mikiohirata9627 cool your jets. its just a funny observation. i'm not allow to point out a funny mistake?
@@maikeru01 I got it, for one! :) Your suggestion of 'incognito mode' was the giveaway that you were being light-hearted. xo
@@mikiohirata9627 Cool off buddy. It clearly has a joke/satire joke to the comment. Don't get why you are getting made a little comment pointing out a pretty funny mistake.
JoBros approved 👍
You’re make up looks like you’re made to withstand the cold how do you feel in cold weather??
I'm quite suprised how this test was for you.
Northern Japan = Ainu or True Native Japanese;
Korean = Southern Japanese aka Yayoi invaders, probably from Ancient Korea region;
England = the saxons from "Anglo-saxons" were actually a northern germanic tribe. Or if you know someone who were from there they could be Britains, of celtic descent;
Germany = Probably from other parts of current Germany
Irish = May be both recent viking invasion or ancient Proto-indo European conection (Yamnaya invaders, the same ancesters of current Germanic and slavic people);
Baltic = Poland once fused with Lithuanian in single country.
1% Italian = Southern Italian is probably from Sardinia, northern italians may have some connection from the Holy roman empire or a ancient Yamnaya ancestry. So your italian may be fused with germanic DNA in this test.
The ainu part doesent mean your mom family are from hokkaido, but some emish people in the main ailand were absorbed into southern japanese culture, so it could be possible to be ainu/emish and not from hokkaido.
Poland genetics is a mix of Slavic, Baltic and Germanic, and Slovakian Check republic and Ukranian for Southern Poles or northern Ukrainians. In the past it was a kingdom named Ruthenia.
If you have any roots in the european nobility be awere they often married people from other countries, mainly germans and austrians from Habsburg family. So maybe that's way you dont have so many Italian DNA.
Japan won Russia in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904.
DNA tells you WHAT you are, not WHO you are
It may just mean that you inherited more things from your fathers side. Siblings also don’t get same percentages !
Now that you know the percentages, instead of half Japanese, would you start saying you're a quarter Polish or 15% English?
Haha I got part North African, Ashkenazi and Southern Europe, but I’m like 85% Eastern European lollllz
А насколько процентов у Вас южновосточной крови ? 😊
4:10 i believe its Yayoi people not yaoi people, because yaoi people would be me 😀
Yeah that was pretty funny 😂😂