23andMe has added an interesting new feature: Ancestry Painting. Here's my husband's:
Here's how 23andMe describes Ancestry Painting (which I see as a sort of admixture assessment):
"As populations became separated over the millennia, small genetic differences developed that can still be used as signatures of geographic ancestry. Ancestry Painting looks at those signatures in the 22 numbered chromosomes (that is, all but X and Y) to infer where in the world the ancestors who passed you each stretch of DNA were most likely to have lived – Africa, Asia or Europe.
Ancestry Paintings essentially give you a snapshot of where your ancestors lived before the beginning of the colonial era about 500 years ago. That’s because the massive migrations that have occurred since then have blurred many of the genetic boundaries that had developed over the millennia. For example, most Americans trace their ancestry not to the continent where they live but to Africa, Asia, Europe or a combination of those places."
So my husband -- who's half-Italian and half-Carpatho-Rusyn (think Slavic) -- comes out 99% European and 1% Asian. See those little splotches of orange? That's his Asian contribution, according to 23andMe. Would be interesting to hear results from anyone who's tested both with 23andMe and DNAPrint Genomics.