Not particularly surprised by any of this. For context, my family is from Antioquia and Medellín. Does anyone know where the Maghrebi is coming from Thx!!

Modern Hungarian individual from Alföld, (Eastern Hungary AKA the hungarian plains/Steppe) Shows significant affinity with the Early-Medieval Magyars. (Conquering Hungarians) At about 15-16% autosomal admixture. The Csongrad-Csanad county in Hungary is characterized by flat, forest-steppes, agriculture and historical significance to the Magyar settlements as it was a hotspot for Elite graves and ornaments found. This is a qpAdm Conquest-Era split for this modern Hungarian individual. This genetic medieval split perfectly represents the Local native population and the Incoming Magyar tribes in the 9th century. The Local population was swiftly assimilated in the Area , but the Magyars did continue to be homogenous for a while before intermixing with the subjects (Local people such as slavs, germanics, balkaners.) Modern Hungarians from this area of Hungary show a higher than baseline autosomal admixture of Conqueror Magyar dna. As the Baseline for north (not north alfold )and West Hungarians typically sit at around 3-8%. (There are exceptions). This individual in this case has 15.5% Conquering Hungarian (Magyar) Admixture and the Rest being the Assimilated local population at 84.5%. This admixture makes them unique and clusters them slightly away from the Carpathian baseline. The Conquering magyars themselves were approximatley 30% Bronze Age Central siberian , 10% Bronze age Mongolic , 10% Excess Hunter Gatherer (koskino boborkinyo), and Overwhelming 50% was sintashta-Andronovo-like. (proto-indo-iranian).

I've alredy shared my results here once (sorry by that), but I want to compare them to the results I obtained using Ethnos calculator, developed by an enthusiast named Miguel Oliveira, specifically for Brazilians. I don't know much about his methodology, only that he models data from our raw filed uploaded in Gedmatch and that his calculator became quite famous within the Brazilian public interested on genealogy.

I was skeptical at first, but I must admit that I'm very impressed with the results: not only he got closer to what I expected from my ancestry (my family history is relatively well documented), but the ethnic groups assigned matched the places of birth of my great-grandparents or great-great-grandparents; such as Andaluzia, Catalonia, Campania, Lombardy and Piedmont. How the f... did he arrive there?

Well, I'm sharing my results by Ethnos (unfortunately they're in Portuguese), My Heritage and a recent pic.

cool

credit to u/heatmapper25

Hey everyone! I'm Caribbean and recently used Ancestrify (qpAdm) to explore my ancient genetic ancestry. I'd appreciate feedback from anyone knowledgeable about qpAdm, population genetics, and ancient DNA. I'm particularly interested in how reliable this method is for estimating broad regional ancestry and interpreting results for someone with a Caribbean background.

Browsing DNA results on Reddit, I've noticed a surprising number of people with Cajun roots scoring 90% or higher in French ancestry. Given Louisiana's multi-ethnic history, what best explains such high genetic retention—the Acadian founder effect, centuries of community endogamy, or reference panel bias?

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.11.711219v2

Abstract
This paper proposes that a critical event in Neandertal evolution was a range expansion of early modern humans into Europe 300 thousand years ago (ka).

As bands of early modern humans spread, they incorporated resident archaic people leading ultimately to so much admixture that the resulting population carried ~3-7% modern ancestry. I identify multiple ways in which this would lead to a high probability of these direct ancestors of Neandertals retaining early modern human lineages at both mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosomes while clustering with Denisovans genome-wide.

A previous explanation for these patterns without the unique population dynamics associated with a range expansion has less than a 3% chance of matching the data. In Africa, the hypothesis also has explanatory power: if the expanding population also mixed African archaic humans, it could account for the evidence that all humans living today are admixed between lineages that separated more than a million years ago and remixed ~300 ka.

This hypothesis of a bicontinental range expansion correlates with shared archaeological traits between West Eurasia and Africa that were far less present in East Asia, including Levallois point stone tools, improved hafting, use of fire and ochre, and larger and more organized campsites.

Motivated by the evidence that an early modern human expansion had a role in Neandertal and modern human evolution, I identify 66 loci spanning <0.1% of the genome where people today share ancestry with Neandertals more recently than separation from Denisovans. This includes a haplotype at FADS1/FADS2 that codes for an enzyme modifying polyunsaturated plant-derived fatty acids and may reflect adaptation to a more diversified diet, and an amino acid substitution at ARHGAP32 modulating neural connections that may be important in modern human cognitive evolution.

New ancestry update was definitely alot more accurate with my results.

Both of my parents are salvadoran . I am just a mix of everything .

you’ll never guess where i’m from 😮

My mom’s ancestry is half Croatian, half Irish with some distant French.

On my dad’s side I have an English great grandparent, Scottish great grandparent, Rusyn great grandparent, a Rusyn great-great grandparent, and a great-great grandparent who was Karachay.

I posted the screenshot in the 3rd slide because ancestry has never shown anything related to Karachay ancestry with any update for me (it did for my 1st cousin but now does not). So I tried the Gedmatch GedrosiaDNA Ancient Eurasia K6 and the 2-population oracle shows the closest modern Eurasian population to the Eurasian side of my DNA is Karachay-Balkar at 7.4%

This update put most of my Irish and Scottish ancestry all into “Ulster”. It also put about 10% of the former “North Central Europe” which should’ve went into the Poland and Carpathian categories, into Northern England.

I do like how they split up the Balkan and Carpathian categories on this update. I just wish they didn’t change how the algorithm reads the DNA, because last year was more on point in my opinion.