DNA for Smith (paternal) and Ryan (maternal)

This is a companion to previous DNA reports which have been published on this site. The following graphs come from GEDCOM and represent various DNA views of our family tree (Smith family, Eureka South Dakota). The original locations of our ancestors are described later on this report, and show us where they lived during the Stone Age and Bronze Age.

Other DNA reports on irishjohnsmith.com. Click on these links to view previous DNA reports:

Ethnicity of Terry Smith

Initial GEDCOM Reports

	Eurogenes Admixture Properties. This analysis portrays our DNA as it is commonly found in various countries today. European is the largest component - over 35% comes from Northern Europe - suggesting a heavy dose of Scandanavian influence in our genetic make-up. Interestingly, almost 30% of our DNA comes from Mediterranean ancestors. This graphic shows less American Indian than other DNA tests. Examining the results closer, you see that more DNA is assigned to Siberia and South Central Asia where the original Neolithic population came from.
	Eurogense Admixture Proportions. Secondary study. This study provides a comparative admixture analysis, and yields a similar or directionally similar view as the previous model. Almost 1/2 our DNA is North Atlantic (Scandanavia, Normandy, and British Isles). Mediterranean DNA is second largest component, followed by Middle East and Southeast Asia More DNA is reflected with our American Indian heritage (1.1%). Over 2% comes from neolithic sources of South Asia which suggests origins in Thailand, Laos and India regions. It also shows origins in some of the islands off the Indonesian islands. These sources are also original DNA for American Indian and European hunter gatherers.
	Neolithic Eurasian Admixture DNA Ancient neolithic and Bronze Age DNA across Eurasian populations. This DNA analysis tries to identify our roots starting with the late Stone Age era. In this view, American Indian DNA represents almost 2% of our genetic make up. Interestingly 50% of our genetic make up is European and Balkan farmers.
	Many of these ancestral populations are described in the written sections below. Iran Neolithic is interesting as this would be the source of all hunter gatherers in Europe and Asia. Sub-Saharan represents the only source where Neanderthal DNA interacts with our geonomes (100% of Neanderthal DNA in our family tree comes from this group of people). Asian and Siberian DNA is reflected in this view.
	Ancient Eurasia DNA view Quick view suggests that 17.68% of our heritage comes from Siberia, 36.34% comes from an area around present day Isreal, and 44% are the combination of hunter gatherers from Scandanavia to the Mediterannean Ocean.
	Modern Admixture Proportions DNA study. In this view, 60% of our DNA heritage is Hunter Gatherers. A little less of our heritage is American Indian (1/2%). More AmerIndian heritage is attributed to Asian DNA sources. Stone Age DNA, as defined by neolithic and Mesolithic, is about a third of our DNA composition.
	Eurogenes EUtest kit. This study shows that 0.8% of our DNA is American Indian. Most of our DNA after the late Stone Age period, is European. Almost 2% is South Asian, and in this study, shows no Siberian connection. By the late Stone Age period, our ancestors no longer populated these Asian or Mid Eastern locations. For the most part, they were in Europe, both Eastern and Western. This study is European focused.

 

Sub Saharan. Yoruba people are an ethnic group of Southwestern and North Central Nigeria as well as Southern and Central Benin, together known as Yorubaland.

The peoples who lived in Yorubaland, at least by the seventh century BC, were not initially known as the Yoruba, although they shared a common ethnicity and language group. The historical Yoruba develop in situ, out of earlier (Mesolithic) Volta-Niger populations, by the 1st millennium BC. Archaeologically, the settlement at Iife can be dated to the 4th century BC, with urban structures appearing in the 12th century

 

Natufian.  Early European farmers from the near east.  This was an epipaleoithic culture that existed 12,500 to 9,500 BC in the area of Isreal.  They were derived about 50% from an original out of Africa population, referred to as Basal Eurasians.  The Natufian culture existed from around 12,500 to 9,500 BC in the Levant, a region in the Eastern Mediterranean. It was unusual in that it supported a sedentary or semi-sedentary population even before the introduction of agriculture. Contrast this with Hunter Gatherers who were nomadic and continuously on the move searching for food.

Ancestral North Eurasian.  ANE.  Upper Paleolithic from Lake Baikal region of Siberia, identified as Malta or Mal'Ta and Antgora.  Our ancestors lived when the mammoths roamed the area.

Lake Baikal Situated in south-east Siberia, the 3.15-million-ha Lake Baikal is the oldest (25 million years) and deepest (1,700 m) lake in the world. It contains 20% of the world's total unfrozen freshwater reserve. Known as the 'Galapagos of Russia', its age and isolation have produced one of the world's richest and most unusual freshwater faunas, which is of exceptional value to evolutionary science

 

Ancestral South Eurasian, ASE.  Andamananese and Australian aboriginals.  These eastern non Africans are believed to have split from out of Africa populations over 50 thousand years ago.   The Andaman Islands are an Indian archipelago in the Bay of Bengal. These roughly 300 islands are known for their palm-lined, white-sand beaches, mangroves and tropical rainforests. Coral reefs supporting marine life such as sharks and rays make for popular diving and snorkeling sites.

Ancestral Indian.  Basically describes an ancient population of India, believed to have been similar to either the onge of the Andaman Islands, or austroasiatic tribals. 

Ancestral Indian, European Hunter Gatherers and American Indian can trace their roots to the Andaman Islands.  The American Indian can trace their heritage to Siberia as many of the Eurasian populations.

 

East Asian.  Mostly from Han and Dai groups.  The Dai people form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China, and are closely related to the Lao and Thai people who form a majority in Laos and Thailand. Originally, the Tai, or Dai, lived closely together in modern Yunnan Province until political chaos and wars in the north at the end of the Tang and Song Dynasty and various nomadic peoples prompted some to move further south into modern Laos then Thailand.

Iran Neolithic. The Neolithic/Age, Era, or Period, or New Stone Age, was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology, in some parts of the Middle East, and later in other parts of the world and ending between 4500 and 2000 BC. 

NEOLITHIC AGE IN IRAN. Originally the term “Neolithic” referred to the final Stone Age before the ages of metals, that is: the Chalcolithic (copper), Bronze, and Iron Ages. Today “Neolithic” usually refers to the period of the origins and early development of agricultural economies

WHG or Western European hunter gatherers.  Western European hunter gatherers whg.  Ancient samples villabruana, la brana, bichon, loschnour, and Hungarian k01.

SHG or Scandinavian hunter gatherers
CHG or Caucasus hunter gatherer
EHG or Eastern European hunter gatherers
EEF or European Early Farmers

In Europe, the Neolithic transition (8,000-4,000 B.C.) from hunting and gathering to agricultural communities was one of the most important demographic events since the initial peopling of Europe by anatomically modern humans in the Upper Paleolithic (40,000 B.C.).  Farming and sedentism first appeared in southwestern Asia during the early Holocene and later spread to neighboring regions, including Europe, along multiple dispersal routes,  It is well established that farming was introduced to Europe from Anatolia, but the extent to which its spread was mediated by demic expansion of Anatolian farmers, or by the transmission of farming technologies and lifeways to indigenous hunter-gatherers without a major concomitant migration of people, has been the subject of considerable debate. Paleogenetic studies of late hunter-gatherers (HG) and early farmers indicate a dominant role for migration in the transition to farming in central and northern Europe, 

AmeriIndian.  There is a mystery with this DNA descent:  in modern Native Americans a trace of DNA related to that of native people from Australia and Melanesia can be found... in an area that other ancestors originated - that being Andaman.  For the Science paper, nearly 4 years in the making, researchers sequenced 31 complete and 79 partial genomes from people in North and South America, Siberia, and Oceania. They compared these with previously sequenced genomes of three ancient skeletons: the 24,000-year-old Mal’ta child from Siberia, the 12,600-year-old Anzick child from Montana, and the 4000-year-old Saqqaq individual from Greenland. The team examined the genetic differences among their samples to determine how long ago various populations diverged, using the ancient genomes to calibrate this DNA clock. They concluded that all Native Americans, ancient and modern, stem from a single source population in Siberia that split from other Asians around 23,000 years ago and moved into the now-drowned land of Beringia. After up to 8000 years in Beringia—a slightly shorter stop than some researchers have suggested (Science, 28 February 2014, p. 961)—they spread in a single wave into the Americas and then split into northern and southern branches about 13,000 years ago.