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[shadowkat]

Hmmm...interesting, my Dad's DNA results came back with: Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Isle of Ulster, Great Britain (isn't Great Britain also Wales, Scotland and Ireland?), Iberian Pensulia (basically Spain), Jewish, Scandinavian, Western Europe (basically France and Belgium and Germany), and the Middle East.

I'm still waiting for mine.

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[yourlibrarian]

Funny that I should see your post about this just now (they probably mean GB generally, as it can't always be completely narrowed down -- I have a good deal of "broadly southern European" and such in mine). I was just emailing with a niece and we were discussing DNA test results as well. She's considering doing a test.

[shadowkat]

I think you're right. Some of the DNA can be identified directly by region, other strands are more generally identified and can't be narrowed down -- such as broadly North-Western European, Great Britain...

I remember discussing this with a couple of pseudo experts on DW and they said pretty much the same thing some of the articles I've read on this said -- in regards to ethnicity, they have to be a bit broader...because you can't narrow it down that well. There isn't that much difference between the DNA strands of various nationalities. Or very minor differences.