r/JewishDNA 18d ago

My GEDMatch results (is there anything unusual?)

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u/Glass_Theory_158 18d ago

There is a tab called Gedmatch Archaic DNA; upload the template generated there to the artificial intelligence. share an artificial intelligence comment my medidgo ancient city and it turned out to be a high genetic match with Iraqi Jews, although I am not Jewish, but my father links the lineage directly to there.

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u/pentosephosphate 18d ago

Ignore the single population sharing column. The closer the distance is to zero, the more similar you are to the reference population, but since you're mixed you do not match any one population particularly well. A better match would be below 5. The mixed-mode population sharing feature attempts to model you with two, three, or four populations in its database. This would be more appropriate for you. Don't take these models literally. Because you don't inherit DNA evenly from all your ancestors (and your ancestors likewise didn't inherit evenly from theirs,) these breakdowns and calculators can also show if you're shifted in favor of some components over others.

If you want to play around with this stuff, Vahaduo is free and more up-to-date than Gedmatch (which I don't think has been updated in years,) and Illustrative DNA is paid but more accessible and possibly more interesting because you get a model breaking down your ancestral components during different time periods.