[2017-01-22] MY DNA RESULTS - Ancestry composition of a mixed race person [VuyNfx87xHg]

Hey, and welcome to my DNA results. Last

year in December, I sent off a saliva

sample to get my DNA tested, and here are

the results. It's quite interesting

actually. Didn't really come to much of a

surprise, but I am 50% Asian and— well,

almost 50% European. I'm actually slightly

more Asian than I am European for some

reason. I'm 51.3% East

Asian and Native American. I was a bit

surprised with the Native American part.

So let's break it down. We, we got 40%

Chinese, which doesn't come

to a surprise because I knew my mum was

descended from Chinese immigrants who

moved to Malaysia from China. I don't

know what this Yakut thing is, 0.1%. It

says it's in this region. It reminds me of

Yakult, the probiotic yogurt. Mmm, tasty.

I'm guessing it's like Serbian people or

Eskimo people. I have no idea. And we got

3% broadly East Asian.

I'm not really sure what that is, maybe

Chinese. And we only got 5% Southeast

Asian, so I'm guessing Southeast Asian

includes Malaysia. That's where all the

Malaysian islands are, and I have

5% of that. And 2.4%

broadly East Asian and Native American.

So that kind of surprised me that I have

2.4% Native American blood.

Maybe it's because Native Americans are

related to this Yakut place. I'm not sure.

And as for my white side, I am 21.6%

British and Irish and 25.6% broadly

Northwestern European. I was a bit

disappointed with this vagueness. I was

hoping it would be a bit more specific.

Anyway, we also got 0.4% Iberian.

I'm guessing that's Spain or Hispanic.

Broadly Southern European. Broadly

European. And I also got

0.1% Sub-Saharan African.

And that's not really surprising. If, if

the theory that humans originated in

Africa, then I guess everyone has

Sub-Saharan African DNA.

But then if you go back far enough,

everyone's the same, really. If you go

really far, really far back enough, then

everyone's just a single-celled organism.

So that was my ancestry composition.

It's fairly detailed, I guess, but after

you've read it all and you've finished

reading it, it's just like, oh, I already

knew that. I just paid £140 to find out

that I am half Asian and half European,

which I already knew.

So, um, what else do we have? We have

other stuff as well, like health overview.

And it tells you your risk factor for

different diseases. There's 11 genetic

risk factors, and I have typical

risk for everyone, and Alzheimer's, I have

the variant absent.

Also, it says could not accurately

determine your data, so that's not very

good. So apparently I don't have any high

risk of getting any of these diseases,

which is great, I guess.

What else is there? You can also click on

the diseases. To be honest, I haven't even

heard of most of these diseases. I've

heard of Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and

this one. That's about it.

And there's also this bit, inherited

conditions. Again, I've never heard of any

of these diseases apart from Cystic

fibrosis and sickle

cell anemia. I've never heard of any of

these diseases, but it says I have the

variant absent, so that's good news.

And there's traits and drug response,

and it just tells you various things about

yourself. Alcohol flush reaction. I don't

go red when I drink alcohol, so does not

flush. Bitter taste. I can taste bitter

food. Blonde hair. I have a 10% chance of

getting blonde hair. I don't have blonde

hair. My earwax type is wet. And yes,

it is very bitter. I can, I can say that

with confidence. Also, my eye colour is

likely brown. Yeah, I paid £140

to find out that my eyes are likely brown.

No, no, it was a good spend of, um, it

wasn't a waste of money. I'm happy with

these results, I guess. Hair curl:

slightly curlier hair on average. Lactose

intolerance: likely tolerance. Yep, I can

drink milk and eat dairy. This is one that

made me a bit upset. Male pattern

baldness: increased odds. I'm not bald

yet, although all my uncles and my dad are

bald. So I'm a bit worried, but I feel

like if you haven't gone bald in your 20s,

then it means that you're not going to go

bald in your 30s. That could be completely

wrong, but I don't know.

Muscle performance, likely sprinter.

I'm not really a sprinter, I don't know

what that means. Norovirus resistance,

not resistant to the most common strain.

Red hair, 1%, less than 1% chance.

Smoking behavior. If a smoker likely to

smoke more. Well, I did try smoking and I

didn't smoke more. You get loads of stuff.

Look at this. But all this stuff you have

to click on it to see the report, and they

give you this really long wall of text

explaining it.

Hmm.

See what else there is. There's a last

one, drug response.

So I guess this is useful for something,

but I don't really know why.

Higher risk of myopathy

in people taking simvastatin.

So maybe I shouldn't be taking this drug.

What is this drug for? Is it like a

So it says there's a chance I could get

myopathy if I take this medication.

I suppose that's useful to know.

Oh, and it also, it also tells you your

Neanderthal ancestry, and I was a bit

upset to learn that I am 3.1% of

my DNA is from Neanderthals, which is

higher than the average user. Wasn't

really happy about that because, well,

Neanderthals aren't really known for their

attractiveness. They're a bit ugly.

So yeah, those were my DNA results. I

don't really know how I feel. I don't— I'm

not sure if I feel like I wasted my money.

It wasn't that much money, I guess. It's

like 4 days' worth of wages.

I was really excited to see the results

and When I was first reading it and

looking at this data, it was really

fascinating. But then after 5 minutes,

you've read it all and there's nothing

really else to do after that. It's just

like, oh, well, that was interesting. Oh,

that's £140 down the drain. Did I really

learn anything new? Yeah, that I have—

apart from, I guess I learned that I have

2.4% Native American DNA.

I already knew that I was half Chinese and

half British European,

but it's interesting to see it presented

on a map and as charts and as percentages.

I like that. I took a picture of this,

posted it on Facebook. It was interesting.

I think it'll be an interesting

conversation topic to talk about with

people. I can tell them that I'm 40%

Chinese.

Sorry if I don't sound very excited. I was

very excited on the time, the exact time I

got the results and I was reading it, but

that was 24 hours ago and I've already

read everything, so my excitement

has kind of died down. But I still wanted

to make the video just because I think

it's interesting.