DNA Land

[BrownEyedGirl]

Hi. Has anyone used DNA Land?

[BrownEyedGirl]

I guess nobody has used this site. If you've had a DNA test done at Ancestry.com or 23&Me, you could run it through DNA Land, and it will give you a break down.

I can't run my results yet since I'm currently in the process of being tested by Ancestry.com. But I ran my son's Ancestry.com results through DNA Land. He got 100 percent European with a significant portion (45 percent) from Italy which is surprising since my mother's family is from Campania, but my father's family is from Northern Europe (Far Northern France, Netherlands, and Ireland). And my husband's family is of Ukrainian descent.

The Italian portion reads:

South/Central European
Includes: Italian/Bergamo, Italian/Tuscan and Toscani in (Bergamo, Tuscany and 1 other site) Italy
Does not include: Albanian in Albania; Basque/French in France; Italian/EastSicilian, Italian/WestSicilian and Sardinian in (Sardinia and 2 other sites) Italy and Lithuanian in Lithuania

Now there's another designation for Sicily as the above designation specifies Lombardy/Tuscany (and I would assume surrounding areas). There's also a designation for JUST "Southern European". I'm not sure if "Southern European" includes Sicilian or if Sicilian stands alone.

My son got 20 percent Norwegian, too, with no direct Norwegian ancestry.

I'm wondering what exactly is included with "South/Central European" (Italic, Germanic, etc.) and how many people of Italian descent would receive THIS designation vs. the Sicilian one.

Some people on this forum also mentioned having "Asia Minor" or "Middle Eastern" ancestry even though they're of full Italian descent (probably due to invasions). From what I read, DNA Land traces recent ancestry (over the last six generations) rather than ancient ancestry. And there is a separate designation in the DNA Land test for Middle Eastern (Asia Minor would probably be included with that). That, obviously, would be different from your Italian ancestry especially if it's in recent generations.

Oh, and one last thing. It could take up to 24 hours for the upload and info to be complete for viewing. So if you upload it and it appears as though it's not working, it actually is - it just takes A LOT of time.

Here's the link: https://dna.land/

If you decide to run your DNA, would you please post your results. Thanks.

[adellagreca]

My wife had her DNA test done through Ancestry.com. How do you upload the results to 23 and me or DNA Land?

[BrownEyedGirl]

23&Me is a different company, and they do their own DNA testing. DNA Land can analyze tests done through Ancestry.com and 23&Me. There is a zip file option that contains your wife's Ancestry DNA results. It's in her Ancestry account. Just download it to your computer and upload it to DNA Land.

[BrownEyedGirl]

Is your wife of Italian descent? If so, does it show any Middle Eastern?

I think Mid East is in the gene pool of certain areas of Italy but not everywhere obviously. It's the same in certain areas of Spain, Portugal, and Greece. And in some areas of Northern Europe with high Asian admixture such as Finland, Northern Sweden, and Estonia.

If it shows "Italian" that's an Indo-European Italic ethnicity. As I mentioned before, Middle Eastern has its own marker/designation.

[mpinchera]

FWIW, DNA Land also imputes data and is considered to be not as accurate as 23andme, etc., according to the genetics dorks on reddit

It's fun to get super-specific results and things that say you're 0.5% something unexpected, but those results aren't as accurate as the main sites and do contain false responses. General rule for sites like GEDmatch and DNA Land: Dismiss any "strange" results under 1%.

[brogie62]

FWIW, DNA Land also imputes data and is considered to be not as accurate as 23andme, etc., according to the genetics dorks on reddit

It's fun to get super-specific results and things that say you're 0.5% something unexpected, but those results aren't as accurate as the main sites and do contain false responses. General rule for sites like GEDmatch and DNA Land: Dismiss any "strange" results under 1%.

The real accuracy of these tests is more like plus or minus 10 percentage points. they are very rough approximations.

[Cherry_Blossom_Rain]

I could understand dismissing anything that's less than 5% on DNA Land--maybe even as high as 10%. It's all background noise and doesn't hold any meaning. The only time I actually a small mark on DNA Land seriously was when we had a birth certificate to back it up. I got a small mark on Malta, and we know my great grandmother from my maternal grandfather's side was born there.
What brought me here is that when I took my raw AncestryDNA results and put them into DNA Land, Impute.Me, and GenCove, they all have me as a quarter Italian with markers in Toscani and Bergamo. Ancestry has me at 33% Europe West, 24% British, 18% Southern European, and 13% Ashkenazi alongside background noise, but the other three sites have me as 30% British, 25% Scandanavian, and 25% Italian (northern) alongside background noise. The Scandanavian actually checked out once I did research on the history of my Scottish roots (our surname/ clan name derives from the Norse word for Stirring Fellow, and DNA land showed markers in the Orkney islands, which is where our clan originates). It's the 25% Italian--markers in Bergamo and Tuscany--that's throwing me off. Both of them show up in Impute.Me too, while GenCove is a bit more generic. I don't know if the DNA databases on those other sites are too generic and tossing everything together, but to see the same results across three different sites seems a bit more than coincidence.
Until Italian started coming up consistently, I thought I was 1/3rd Greek from my mother's side...but outside of Ancestry, I'm consistently coming up as 25% Italian and 5-7% Greek, at best.