The Many Genes of Bob

Greetings

2011-02-17T16:00:00.000-08:00

This post is a bit of information about my family tree. If you have received this link you might be a genetic match of mine at 23andMe, Family Tree DNA or HIR Search.

Below is a high level overview of my tree at Ancestry.com. If you believe we are related and would like an invitation to the tree, email my son (profile on the right side of this page) he manages my profile and we will be happy to invite you.

Clicking on the pictures below will make them larger.

Dodecad Ancestry Project Results

2011-02-17T15:55:00.000-08:00

Bobs ancestry analysis from the Dodecad Project below. North European, South European and a slice of West Asian. Thanks Dienekes!

http://dodecad.blogspot.com/2010/10/introducing-dodecad-ancestry-project.html

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/10/the-dodecad-ancestry-project/

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101215/full/468880a.html

Ancestral Information

2011-02-17T15:47:00.000-08:00

What have we done with my DNA?

We have sent my data to Dr. Doug McDonald We have submitted my Y-Chromosome information to Adriano Squecco and David F Reynolds' Y-Chromosome Genome Comparison project . I am also in Leon Kull's HIR Search listed as Robert F Evans.

If you have any questions or match me at HIR Search or 23andMe, feel free to email my son with any questions. You can find his email in the "about me" link on the right side of this page. Below are several tools from 23andMe that display ancestral information about me.

Global Similarity

Here is my "Global Similarity" provided by 23andMe. I'm closest to English, French, and German.

Ancestry Painting

Here is a high level "painting" of my chromosomes. They only use three populations in this tool and it's pretty conservative. My results were 100% Europe.

Ancestry Finder

Ancestry Finder allows you to see where some of the people that match your chromosomes are from. Of course you have to complete the survey to have your data included, and many have not done this or any of the surveys. Since 23andMe have a large user base in the United States, many of my matches are here. Next highest are the United Kingdom. This isn't surprising to me considering my known genealogy.

23andMe describes the tool by saying "Let the 23andMe Community help you discover what countries your ancestors might have lived in. This lab is fueled by your responses to the "Where Are You From?" ancestry survey."

Dr. Doug McDonald

I sent my data to J.Doug McDonald, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His current research interests include studies of the folding of single protein molecules. He is the Assistant Administrator and Data Custodian of the Clan Donald DNA Project. Dr. McDonald uses a higher resolution process so you can find things that the 23andMe tool might miss.

He has been accepting data and running reports for DNA hobbyists like myself for the last few years. Dr. McDonald's analyses of my DNA was as follows:

"You test as most probably 100% Orkney. The spot on the map is Rochdale, west central England. The chromosomes agree too that you are essentially 100% Euro." - Doug McDonald

A small amount of Native American and African

Y-Chromosome and mtDNA

2011-02-17T14:00:00.000-08:00

My Y-Chromosome Results

FTDNA- R1b1b2a1b5
23andMe- R1b1b2a1a2f*

mtDNA Results

FTDNA- Haplogroup H
23andMe- H5b

Evans of Wales

2011-02-17T13:35:00.000-08:00

I am looking for an Evans match. My great grandfather, Thomas Reese (Reece)(Rhys) Evans, came to America from Merthyr Tydfil Wales about 1860, and did some coal prospecting in Pennsylvania before moving to Birmingham, Alabama.

Merthyr Tydfil Wales

There he met my great grandmother, Katherine Sharitt (Sharit Cemetery in Tarrant City, Alabama). My cousin, James Robert Evans began the genealogy search about thirty years ago at the Birmingham Public Library using census tapes. He traced our Grandmother's line (Gossett, Bibb, etc) back several generations. We can not get past our great grandfather. Family legend is that our great grandfather had two siblings. Their parents divorced in Merthyr Tydfil. One brother went to Canada, one went to Australia, and Thomas Reese came to America. He had one son, Thomas James, my grandfather, who had my dad, John R. Evans, my uncle, James Reese , and my aunt, Anna Katherine.

My brothers Benny, Barry, and myself are the only three males of our generation from our great grand father's migration to America.

How Neandertal is Bob?

2011-02-17T04:32:00.000-08:00

Interpretome is a new site full of tools for us DNA junkies. Here is a review of the site on Genomes Unzipped:

http://www.genomesunzipped.org/2011/06/interpretome-new-online-tools-for-analysing-personal-genome-data.php

Konrad Karczewski one of the creators describes the Neandertal link describes the tool on the 23andme discussion board:

Thanks again everyone! Glad everyone is having fun with it!

The Neandertal tool simply takes the Neandertal genome (from Green et al: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/328/5979/710.abstract from last year), and intersects the "Neandertal-specific" SNPs with a 23andme profile. The running theory is that at some point in history, Neandertals interbred with humans after their migration out of Africa and this has persisted in human populations by way of alleles that are found in Europeans, Asians, and Neandertals, but not in Africans. The tool counts those alleles.

It's definitely not a literal "how Neandertal are you?" measure, but we've had some fun with it.

Also, to those who have said they had 19 alleles, that's the current running record. In our experience, the average for Europeans is around 12ish, lowest being somewhere around 4, and the highest at 19.

So how Neandertal is Bob? A little above average for a European. The list of Allele's continues, but I couldn't capture them all in a screen shot. The Neandertal gauge below!