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Old Tue, Jun-25-19, 22:15
jschwab jschwab is offline
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Plan: Atkins72/Paleo/NoGrain/IF
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Originally Posted by DelaneyLC
My DNA was as expected. I had already done a lot of family history research, so no big surprises!


I was surprised how few of certain lines came through (assuming the testing is accurate). I mean, if you look at me you can tell, but I had come to form an identity around genetics that were minimal. What I identified with as a kid was the strongest, though, based on my one living grandparent. Even though she was half Irish herself with the other half English and married someone English and my mother ended up with a lot of English/Welsh genetics due to that, I got the Irish genes (52%) and not the English (5%). One the other side, I ended up very lopsided, too. I am fluent in one ancestral language because I learned it as an adult but very minimally genetically connected (also obvious if you look at me but it was still surprising).
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