GEEEEEENES
Hey so my 23andMe ancestry composition has updated a bit with their new algorithms. Check it:
- The “French & German” went waaay up from 28.7% to 43.9%
- The “British & Irish” went down from 4.2% to 0.1%
- The “Native American” went up from 8.8% to 9.1%
- The miniscule bit of “Japanese & Korean” is new
- The “Sub-Saharan African” category went down from 2.2% to 1.8%, but the individual regions got a bit more specific I think.
I am very German, haha.
Coolio!
GEEEEEEEEENES
Hey, nerds!
I’ve mentioned my 23andMe results on here a few times now, and since I first got the testing done in 2012, they’ve refined some of their ancestry algorithms, causing some small changes to my results. Here’s what’s changed per region:
European: still 87.6%
- French and German went from 15.4% to 28.7%, with strongest evidence of ancestry in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria (both Germany), and Friesland (Netherlands)
- British and Irish went from 13.2% to 4.2%
- Ashkenazi Jewish went from 0.7% to 0.5%
East Asian and Native American: went from 9.2% to 9.0%
- Native American went from 8.3% to 8.8%, with strongest evidence of ancestry in Sonora (Mexico)
Sub-Saharan African: went from 2.1% to 2.2%
So that’s kinda cool.
I was actually thinking of getting my mom and myself a kit from Ancestry.com, since that’s what my dad used for his ancestry a while back and then we could all compare each other based on one company’s results. It’d also be curious to see how different Ancestry.com would be from 23andMe as far as the results go.
Anyway.
Interesting…
So here’s something interesting.
I was looking at my old 23andMe results that I got back in like 2012, ‘cause I wanted to show them to Nate. Back when I had first gotten the results back, I was more interested in the medical results (things I have more of a risk of getting, things I am low risk for, etc.). But today, I decided to look in more detail at the Ancestry Composition information. Here’s what I’ve got for my composition:
First off, I thought I was basically 100% European. Which is apparently not the case. I have no idea where that relatively large (in my opinion—remember I thought I was like 100% European) Native American percentage is coming from. Or that tiny bit of West African. Like…have you seen my family?
Also, something I didn’t know: Ashkenazi is a Jewish ethnic division, mainly from Germany, so that’s cool.
So I am mainly European, but not as European as I thought I was.
TWSB: Mendel’s Boxcars
Matt, I think you’ll dig this (if you ever get a break from babies, haha).
BoxCar2D is a program that learns to build a little boxcar using a genetic algorithm. Starting off with a population of 20 cars in generation 0, the 20 cars all run (or don’t, some of them are pretty pathetic, haha) and those that run the longest “reproduce.” If you let it run long enough, you really see pretty dramatic improvement from the 0th to the nth generation. There is also a mutation rate in play that you can set on a sliding scale from no mutations to “100% mutations”, where all components of the car are changeable.
I’ve got a run going in the background as I type this. It’s on generation 6 and some of the cars are running for a whole minute.
Read about the algorithm here.
Check it out, it’s really cool! You can also design your own.
Random stuff from 23andMe ’cause I’m bored.
I was messing around on 23andMe this afternoon. Here are two little graphics showing the distribution of hair color and eye color for the 23andMe community. The ones with the little green blat next to them were my choices.
A Geneticist’s Worst Nightmare
Hahahahaha, this is freaking great.
Mendel would flip the fuck out.
I’m going to go cross some owls with some blackjack tables, I’ll be right back.
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