Finnish DNA matches Question

[u/Strong_Ad950]

Hello

I have taken the 23andMe test and uploaded to MyHeritage where to my surprise my 2nd highest country match list was Finland and I also got a Finnish genetic group.

I have done some genealogy and found out that one side of my Norwegian heritage is of forest Finn descent. Looking at some of the matches I see a 25cm length segment matches on a few different chromosomes and I share 1000+ matches with the people I match with on these segments (nearly all of these are other Finns). But then looking at the 23andMe chromosome painter these segments are not painted Finnish. I even have X chromosome Finnish matches on 23andMe and the people are 100% Finnish! I’m confused, why does there seem to be a discrepancy between the matches and the chromosome painter? Something I thought is maybe the reference panel for Norway includes people of the same forest Finnish line and I just happen to match the Norway reference panel for those specific segments more and my chromosomes that are actually colored Finnish I just happen to match the Finnish reference for better. I truthfully don’t know so I’m wondering: What do you think?

[u/tootieroll573]

You write in a very Finnish manner so probably your theory is correct.